Population
What terms describe the number of individuals of a species in a given area?
What is population size?
what do herbivores eat?
What is plants?
What are the two main parts of an ecosystem?
What is Biotic (living) and abiotic (non-living) factors?
What gas do plants take in during photosynthesis?
What is carbon dioxide?
What is niche?
What is the role or job of an organism in its environment?
What is the maximum number of individuals an environment can support?
What is carrying capacity?
What type of consumer is a lion?
What is carnivore or secondary/ tertiary consumer?
What is the role of a producer in an ecosystem?
What is to make energy from sunlight through photosynthesis?
What gas do animals release during cellular respiration?
What is cardon dioxide?
What term describes when two species compete for the same niche?
What is competition?
What type of population growth curve shows a rapid increase followed by a steady state?
What is logistic growth?
What is the role of decomposers in an ecosystem?
What is breaking down dead organisms and recycling nutrients?
What do you call a diagram that shows how energy flows through an ecosystem?
What is a food chain or food web?
What is the main product of photosynthesis that animals use for energy?
What is glucose?
What kind of niche does a generalist species have?
What is broad niche (they can live in any environment)?
Name two factors that can cause a population to decrease?
What is predation and disease?
Name one adaption that helps animals survive in the desert?
What is water conservation, nocturnal activity, or burrowing?
What is ecological succession?
What is the natural process by which ecosystems change and develop over time?
What cycle involves nitrogen-fixing bacteria converting nitrogen gas into usable compounds?
What is nitrogen cycle?
Give one example of a specialist species?
What is koala (only eats eucalyptus leaves)?
What term of species that has a disproportionately large effect on its ecosystem?
What is a keystone species?
What is the term for relationship where one organism benefits and the other is harmed?
What is parasitism?
Explain the difference between primary and secondary succession?
Primary: Starts from bare rock with no soil.
Secondary: Starts where soil already exists.
In what process do plants release water vapor into air?
What is transpiration?
What's the difference between a fundamental niche and a realized niche?
What is the fundamental niche is the full range of conditions a species can use?