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Change is in the air
Boundless Botany
Potpuurri
Growing, Growing Gone
Colorado!
100
The earlier stages of a community that like disturbed conditions.
What is a pioneer?
100
Leaves begin growing from this bumpy structure on a stem
What is a node?
100
The struggle for limited resources between two different populations.
What is competition?
100
All the members of one species in an areas makes a ______.
What is population?
100
The _______ is our state tree!
What is the Blue Spruce?
200
The stable, self supporting stage with narrow and complex niches.
What is a climax?
200
The outer edge of a leaf blade is termed the ________.
What is the margin?
200
The greek root meaning "house" that forms the derivation of the word ecology.
What is oikos?
200
_______ is the birth rate for a population.
What is natality?
200
All 54 of our "14er" summits place you in this life zone!
What is the alpine?
300
This term describes the specific type of communal change that follows a disturbance such as a fire or wind storm
What is secondary succession?
300
A _______ tree loses it leaves every autumn.
What is deciduous?
300
A _____ is a poisonous substance that can cause damage within an ecosystem.
What is a toxin?
300
A population's _______ describes its natural "fertility", or ability to reproduce.
What is fecundity?
300
A population's "job" on its habitat, like the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep is called its ________.
What is niche?
400
These symbiotic organisms help break down rock in primary succession to help create soil.
What are lichens?
400
A compound leaf is made of "little blades" called _______.
What are leaflets?
400
The boundary between life zones, where species diversity is high.
What is an ecotone?
400
A "K" populations levels off and stops growing at _________.
What is carrying capacity?
400
You'd expect to find "bundles" of these conifers on Colorado's sunny, south facing slopes!
What are pines?
500
A ______ stage is one step in the process of change within a community.
What is seral?
500
A plant's ability to turn energy that it makes by photosynthesis into new growth is termed _______.
What is productivity?
500

An effect created by a keystone species at the top of an ecosystem that causes a series of positive effects lower down within that ecosystem.

What is trophic cascade?

500
The combination of all the limiting factors that affect a population's ability to grow.
What is environmental resistance?
500
Our most ancient living organism!
What is the Bristlecone Pine?