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Gas Cycles
Adaptations
Interactions
Stability
Human Impact
100
The process by which water moves back into the atmosphere through plant leaves
What is transpiration?
100
Classical conditioning - when an organism learns to respond to a new stimulus in it's environment - is an example of this kind of adaptation.
What is a behavioral adaptation.
100
This type of interaction occurs between members of two or more different species.
What is a symbiotic relationship/symbiosis?
100
This term describes the maximum amount of a given population that an ecosystem can sustain.
What is carrying capacity?
100
This is the process by which cities expand, or move outward from their point of origin.
What is urban sprawl?
200
This is the form that carbon takes as it moves through Earth's atmosphere, water, and ground.
What is carbon dioxide?
200
This adaptation can be internal or external and is a physical structure that assists the organism with something.
What is a structural adaptation?
200
Pollination is an excellent example of this type of symbiotic relationship.
What is mutualism?
200
These factors control carrying capacity and can be biotic or abiotic.
What are limiting factors?
200
This is the main reason for present-day deforestation.
What is agriculture?
300
The overabundance of these gases in the atmosphere leads to excessive warming of the planet.
What is a greenhouse gas?
300
This adaptation helps ensure that the maximum number of offspring are created and/or survive.
What is a reproductive adaptation?
300
This body chemical is designed to elicit a response by other individuals of the same species.
What is a pheromone?
300
Disease and invasive species are examples of this type of limiting factor.
What is a biotic limiting factor?
300
This describes how organisms higher in the food web will have larger amounts of a toxin inside of their bodies.
What is bioaccumulation?
400
These organisms have the least amount of energy in the food web.
What are tertiary consumers?
400
This type of adaptation can assist with movement, acquiring food, and respiration.
What are structural adaptations?
400
This type of organism feeds off of it's host, but doesn't try to kill it in the process.
What is a parasite?
400
Climate, shelter, and water are examples of this kind of limiting factor.
What is an abiotic limiting factor?
400
This type of pollution can corrode tree leaves, making photosynthesis much more difficult, and can change the pH of aquatic ecosystems.
What is acid rain?
500
This is the amount of energy transferred as you move through the trophic levels of a food web.
What is 10%?
500
This is a structural adaptation that often occurs seasonally, as the organism matures, or with environmental disaster.
What is camouflage?
500
This type of symbiosis is thought to be an early form of mutualism, but the dual benefit hasn't yet been fully established.
What is commensalism?
500
This is a tool that helps ecologists accurately track population sizes and document major events that cause populations to fluctuate.
What is a population graph?
500
These organisms don't exist naturally in an environment.
What are invasive species?