Population Ecology
Community Ecology
Ecosystem Ecology
Vocabulary
Food Webs
100

The amount of a certain species in a given area.

What is Population?

100

This is when a living creature eats annother to sustain life. 

What is a preadator-prey relationship. 

100

This hot environmental disaster causes primary succession to begin. 

What are volcanic eruptions?

100
The study of population growth, regulation, and dynamics, or demography.



What is Population Ecology. 

100

This is chain of species linked and entangled with many other other food chains. 

What is a food web?

200

A measurement of population per unit land area.

What is Population Density?

200

An interaction between creatures benifiting none of the participants. 

What is Competition? (-/-)

200

This extremely large and cold object causes Primary succession. 

What is a glacier?

200
A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.

What is a Food Web?

200

If this dissapeared the food web would completely sease to exist. 

What is the sun?

300

The number of living organisms that a region can support without environmental degradation.

What is Carrying Capacity?

300

Mutualism, Parasitism, and Commensalism are all ____ types of relationships. 

What is Symbolic?

300

Fire can cause this type of environmental succession. 

What is Secondary succession. 

300

The Study of the organization and functioning of communities within an Ecosystem. 

What is Community Ecology?

300

Plants eaten by any species fit into this category. 

What is a producer?

400

Uniformed, Random, and Clumped are the 3 types of what?

What are Dispersion Patterns?

400

This is a consumer that eats preadators.

What is a tertiary consumer?

400

This plant is considered primary succesions pioneer species. 

What is lichen?

400

The process of building and breaking new Ecosystems. 

What is Ecosystem Ecology?

400

This is an animal that only eats herbivors. 

What is a secondary consumer?

500

This equation formula calculates the growth rate of a population. 

R=(B+I)-(D+E)/N

500

This type of consumer happens to be strictly a herbivore

What is a primary consumer?

500

This is the final form of any ecosystem?

What is a climax community?

500
The ability to produce an abundance of offspring or new growth?


What is Fecundity?

500

An Apex Predator.

What is a Tertiary consumer.