These are nutrient-rich lakes and often depleted of oxygen
What is eutrophic?
100
Succession that occurs after a fire is an example of.....
What is secondary succession
100
Pieces of quality habitat connecting isolated patches.
What is a habitat corridor?
100
In Georgia, the hawk often hunts mice and squirrels, this is an example of a ________ relationship.
What is a predator and prey relationship?
100
This biome has a warm, humid climate with huge variety of plant and animal species.
What is the tropical rainforest?
200
These are nutrient-poor and generally oxygen-rich lakes
What is oligatrophic?
200
A community that is relatively stable and undisturbed and has reached an end stage of succession.
What is a climax community?
200
Small area with concentration of many different species and large number of endangered and threatened species.
What is a biodiversity hotspot?
200
Spanish Moss benefits by living in a tree. The tree is neither helped nor harmed by this relationship. This relationship is called________________.
What is Commensalism?
200
These can be very hot or very cold, but they are always dry.
What is the Desert?
300
This is a habitat that is inundated by water at least some of the time and that supports plants adapted to water-saturated soil
What is a wetland?
300
This type of succession takes longer to occur
What is primary succession?
300
Coyotes often roam residential neighborhoods looking for food. This is most likely due to their original habitat being broken up by suburban homes. What type of habitat alteration is this?
What is habitat fragmentation?
300
The Oxpecker (a bird) sits atop the rhino and eats the bugs off him. The Oxpecker gets full and the rhino gets relief from all the bug bites! This is an example of ____________.
What is Mutualism?
300
A vast and treeless land which covers about 20% of the Earth's surface-It is usually very cold-most located in the Northern Hemisphere. animals-Arctic Fox Caribou, grizzly bear.
What is the tundra?
400
Lakes experience turnover (or over turn), which mixes around nutrients and oxygen, during these seasons.
What is spring and autumn?
400
Lichen, or small fast growing plants, are often the first plants to appear during primary or secondary succession. What is another name for these first plants that appear?
What is a pioneer species?
400
The different conditions along the boundries of an ecosystem
What are edge effects?
400
Fleas feed on the blood of animals. This is an example of ________________.
What is parasitism?
400
large, rolling terrains of grasses, flowers and herbs perfict for agriculture because of nutrient rich soil
What is Temperate grassland?
500
This is the zone of a lake or pond that contains the most amount of organisms.
What is the littoral zone?
500
is the scientific method of dating based on the analysis of patterns of tree-rings
What is dendochronology?
500
defined as a relatively homogeneous area that differs from its surroundings
What is a habitat patch
500
Two species put selective pressure on each other
What is coevolution?
500
Covers the largest portion of the earth and supports large amount of plant and animal life.