Terms
The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment.
Ecology
Continued breeding of faster horses is this type of selection.
Artificial
Male deer fighting over territory is an example of this.
Competition
Migration that occurs without guidance or previous experience.
Instinctive
An inherited trait that helps an organism "fit-in and survive" and gives an organism an advantage in its particular environment.
Adaptation
No two zebras having the exact same pattern of stripes is an example of this.
Variation
Out of the thousands of eggs a female salmon lays, only several dozen will reach adulthood is an example of this.
Overproduction
A group of ants carrying food back to the colony is an example of this.
Cooperation
Most migration that occurs WITH guidance and previous survival experience.
Learned
The five ways seeds are dispersed.
Wind, water, fire, animals, humans
A group of organisms whose offspring can breed and have offspring like themselves is an example of this.
Species
This is the natural balance between predators, prey, biotic factors, and abiotic factors within an ecosystem.
Homeostasis
The relationship between predator and prey.
Predation
The main reasons animals migrate.
Food, water, and reproduction
Migration
A random change in an organism's genetic material that can cause a new variation to occur.
Mutation
This human factor contributed to the increase of the dark moth population in England.
Industrial pollution
A close relationship between two different species in which one species benefits while the other is not affected.
Commensalism
The overwhelming urges an animal has to eat, mate, and reproduce.
Internal signals
**DAILY DOUBLE**
These plants have the most successful seed dispersal method.
Flowering plants that produce fruit
The relationship between individuals of two different species who live together in a close relationship.
(hint: there are three types of this)
Symbiosis
This process happens when a population of organisms becomes isolated from their original group, and over time evolve into a new species.
Speciation
Hawks and owls fight over nesting areas is an example of this.
Interspecific Competition
Changes such as daylight hours, temperature, and lowering food supplies that trigger the migration of animals.
External signals
The main reason the bald eagle population gradually declined.
DDT by humans