This term describes any close relationship between species.
What is symbiosis?
100
This term describes any factor the restricts the number of individuals within a population.
What is limiting factor?
100
This exciting strategy for counting a population is really capture-vating!
What is trap-mark-release?
100
Non-living, physical features of an environment are called this.
What are abiotic factors?
100
This term describes a single living thing.
What is organism?
200
"Call the exterminator, the dogs has fleas again!"
"The exterminator, again?! He's such a pest!"
Both the fleas and the exterminator exemplify this bothersome relationship with their hosts.
What is parasitism?
200
An introduction of one of these scary factors can quickly limit the number of organisms within a population.
What is a predator?
200
The relationship between these two population related rates demonstrates the circle of life, except for when one is greater than the other, making things less circle-like.
What are birth and death rates?
200
Composing the majority of living organsisms, this fluid factor is essential for cellular processes.
What is water?
200
This term describes the study of living things and their relationship to their environment.
What is ecology?
300
In this free-loading relationship, one organism just takes and takes and takes and gives nothing in return.
What is commensalism?
300
These three factors are the most common factors to influence the size of a population.
What are food, water, and shelter?
300
I've counted 8 rabbits within an acre of a twenty acre region. Based on sample counting, there are approximately this many rabbits in the region.
What is 160 rabbits?
300
This abiotic factor is referred to as the ultimate energy source for life on earth.
What is sunlight?
300
This term describes all groups of species within a specified region.
What is community?
400
"Here, let me get that," the days the oxpecker as he eats a tick off the back of an antelope demonstrating this type of relationship.
What is mutualism?
400
A need for resources often creates this, most often found between organisms of the same species.
What is competition?
400
The larger a population becomes, the faster it grows due to is.
What is exponential growth?
400
Although it is partially composed of once living organisms, this factor also contains minerals, rocks, water, and air.
What is soil?
400
Deer, fish, sheep, moose. In the plural form, any one of these form this essential component of an ecosystem.
What is population?
500
The female cowbird lays its eggs in the nest of another species of bird and these birds care for the chicks through birth. This abandonment would be classified as this type of relationship.
What is commensalism?
500
This term describes the maximum number of organisms that can be supported by the resources of an ecosystem.
What is carrying capacity?
500
Without limiting factors, the highest rate of reproduction in a population refers to this.
What is biotic potential?
500
Climate, an essential abiotic factor includes these three major components.
What are temperature, precipitation, and wind?
500
Life on earth spans far and wide and includes living things from these three components of the biosphere.