Ecology Definitions
Tolerance, Trophic Levels and Growth
Competition, Group Behavior and Niches
Biodiversity & Resilience
HIPCO
General Questions
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A nonliving factor.
What is an abiotic factor?
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The bottom level of a trophic pyramid.
What is a producer?
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When two different species compete.
What is interspecific competition?
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Lichen and moss are the first organisms of this succession.
What is primary succession?
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The O in HIPCO.
What is overharvesting?
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The study of life.
What is biology?
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Nonliving and living factors together.
What is an ecosystem?
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Where a species is around but is struggling.
What is stressed zone?
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Organisms moving together, at the same speed, at the same time.
What is schooling?
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The final stage of succession is called this.
What is a climax community?
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Long-term shifts in temperature and weather patterns.
What is Climate Change?
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The study of organisms and their interactions with their environments.
What is ecology?
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When one species eats another.
What is predation?
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Herbivores are also called this.
What is a primary consumer?
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Animals traveling together, living together, eating and together.
What is herding?
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The process where an environment recovers from a disturbance.
What is succession?
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Solar, wind and nuclear energy.
What are solutions to pollution?
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An organism that must eat others for its energy.
What is a heterotroph?
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Another name for producers.
What are autotrophs?
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At around 2000 organisms, this species reaches its
What is carrying capacity?
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The difference between habitat and niche.
What is where an organism lives versus what role an organism has?
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The difference between primary and secondary succession.
What is primary succession forming new ecosystems?
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Caused by a variety of reasons, including agriculture, urbanization and resource extraction.
What is Habitat Loss?
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The more resilient ecosystem.
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What is ecosystem 2?
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When one species receives a benefit and the other is neither harmed or helped.
What is commensalism?
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When a keystone species is removed, the effects it has on the rest of an ecosystem.
What is a trophic cascade?
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Two animals occupying different spaces in an ecosystem.
What is spatial niche partitioning?
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Which community has the best "Species Richness"?
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What is community 2?
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Introducing a natural predator.
What is one solution to invasive species?
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The effect Otters have on Kelp.
What is an indirect, positive effect?