Key Concept
There is no change in the system, or the loss and gain are equal.
What is stability?
Equal amount of loss and gain in a system
What is stability?
The largest ecosystem in the world.
What is the ocean?
Food, water, shelter, space.
What are the things that help populations grow?
Within this population, births and deaths are equal.
What is a stable population?
A small part to represent the whole.
What is a sample?
To take them out of their natural habitat.
What is the easiest way to eliminate species?
A sudden decrease in this type of population often leads to a decrease in the predator population.
What is resources or prey population?
Build a bird's nest.
What is a way to help your ecosystem.
All living and non-living things interacting within an area.
What is an ecosystem?
The Dodo bird, Passenger pigeon, Pearly mussels, and Bighorn sheep.
What are extinct animals?
This type of growth occurs when resources are unlimited, creating a J-shaped graph.
What is exponential growth?
Within this organisms are always being born and dying.
What is a ecosysytem?
A group of the same organisms living in the same area.
What is a population?
To remove it from its natural habitat.
What is the easiest way to kill a species?
This term refers to the amount of land and water needed to support a person or population.
What is an ecological footprint?
Deserts, rainforests, oceans, cites.
What are ecosystems?
Going up and down constantly.
What is fluctuating?
All living things depend on ____ ____.
Each other.
This concept describes how individuals of the same species fight for the same limited resources. (Final jeopardy)