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The study of the interactions of living organisms with one another and their physical environment.
What is Ecology?
100
A _____________ eats other organisms to gain energy and nutrients.
What is a consumer?
100
_________ describes the location and spacing of individuals within their habitat or range.
What is population dispersion?
100
All of the living, once living and made by living things in an environment.
What are biotic factors?
100
A series of more-or-less predictable events that occur in a community over time
What is ecological succession?
200
A _______________is a group of animals of the same species living in the same areas that are able to interact and interbred.
What is a population?
200
The carrying capacity is the population size that a particular environment can support indefinitely without long-term damage to the environment. You see this in what type of growth?
What is logistic growth?
200
This type of growth is indicated by a "J-shaped" curve.
What is exponential growth?
200
Turns out that __________ are very important to the overall functioning of an ecosystem than previously thought historically.
What are predators?
200
The first species to colonize barren areas.
What is pioneer species?
300
The wolves were eventually reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park. To measure their success, biologists monitored their ____________, the number of individuals per unit area.
What is population density?
300
The _______________ is the population size that a particular environment can support indefinitely without long-term damage to the environment.
What is carrying capacity?
300
This represents....
What is positive feedback / a positive feedback loop?
300
This represents which type of feedback loop?
What is negative feedback?
300
Succession that occurs when a disturbance affects an existing community but doesn’t completely destroy it
What is secondary succession?
400
Specific resources often become so critical that their availability controls the population size. These type of resources are referred to as _____________
What are limiting factors?
400
A complicated collection of food chains linked together is known as a ___________
What is a food web?
400
All the living organisms that coexist in a certain area.
What is a community?
400
In a 4 km squared area there are 20 deer. What is the density of the deer population?
What is 5 deer per km?
400
A specific, uniform, and stable community at the “end” of succession
What is climax community?
500
_____________ are a group of organisms that convert inorganic atmospheric CO2 into sugar (energy).
What are producers?
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There are some factors that impact a population as it increases. These are known as:
What are density dependent factors?
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There are some factors that impact a population regardless of the population size. These are known as _______________
What are density independent factors?
500
The amount by which a population’s size changes over time.
What is population growth rate?
500
A population of 200 bison are introduced to an area in 2019. You come back in 2020 to count the population and have found that 17 individuals immigrated, 26 individuals emigrated, 14 individuals died and 18 individuals were born. What is the population growth rate in %?
What is -2.5%?