The year-after-year conditions of temperature and precipitation in a particular region
What is climate?
100
An interaction where one organism kills and eats another
What is predation?
100
This is a large region of the biosphere with similar climate and dominant communities
What is a biome?
100
Characteristic of populations that refers to the number of individuals in a certain area
What is density?
100
These are things that reduce population growth
What are limiting factors?
200
This climate zone is constantly hot and found along the Earth's equator
What is the tropical zone?
200
An interaction where organisms fight over resources
What is competition?
200
This land biome has more species than all the other land biomes combined
What is the tropical rainforest?
200
Term used when individuals leave a population
What is emigration?
200
This type of limiting factor includes things like weather, seasonal cycles, natural disasters, and human activity.
What is density-independent?
300
These climate zones are constantly cold and found at the top and bottom of the Earth.
What are the polar zones?
300
The type of symbiosis in which one organism benefits at the expense of another
What is parasitism?
300
The one thing all deserts have in common
What is they are dry?
300
The type of population growth shown in population graph A on the board
What is exponential?
300
This type of limiting factor includes things like predation, disease, competition, and parasitism.
What is density-dependent
400
These climate zones are found between the equator and the poles-- they experience seasonal changes in temperature.
What are the temperate zones?
400
The type of symbiosis in which both organisms benefit from their relationship with one another
What is mutualism?
400
A special wetland ecosystem where fresh and saltwater meet
What is an estuary?
400
The type of population growth shown in population graph B on the board
What is logistic?
400
This is the study of human populations
What is demography?
500
These are the two main components of climate
What are temperature and precipitation?
500
The type of symbiosis in which one organism benefits from another without having an effect on it
What is commensalism?
500
This is the permanently dark part of the ocean where only chemosynthesis occurs
What is the aphotic zone?
500
The term for the point in graph B where the line becomes horizontal, which indicates that growth has stopped because the environment has reached the maximum number of individuals it can support.
What is carrying capacity?
500
The term for for when a human population goes from having high birth and death rates to low ones.