Population
Exponential growth when plotted on a graph is shaped like a(n)
What is a J curve
most likely to reproduce is called
What is fitness?
Part of the methods of science that include well informed people on all sides of an issue
What is gathering information?
Any significant amount of water gathered under the earth's surface in rocks and soil
What is an aquifer
The primary source of energy comes from this
What is the sun?
a group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific geographical area and interbreed
a group of organisms of different species that live in the same place at the same time
All of the organisms living in an area together with their physical environment
What is the difference between population, community, and an ecosystem?
An inherited characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment
What is an adaptation
a scientist completing another scientist experiment by following the other scientist procedures is called
What is replication?
hydrogen bonding, adhesion, cohesion (sticky), solubility, frozen water is less dense than liquid, and high specific heat (slow to change temperature)
What are unique properties of water?
used to run the organisms bodily functions and some lost as heat
What is where energy goes when an organism consumes another organism?
largest population that an environment can support for a particular species at a particular time; determined by the supply of the most limited resources.
What is the carrying capacity of an environment?
Classification of organisms that eats both plants and animals
What is omnivore
True or false
science that is not based on scientific explanation is considered invalid and false
What is true?
In water oxygen has a negative charge, and hydrogen has a positive charge - this is called....
What is polar molecule?
The percentage of energy which does not move on to the next trophic level
What is 90%
total number of individuals (size)
number of individuals per unit area or volume (density)
arrangement of its individuals in space ie. even, clumped, or random. (dispersion)
What is how could you describe a population?
Example of an ecosystem with the highest net primary productivity (50%)
What is the rainforest
a group of individuals or events selected large enough to represent a statistical population
What is a scientific sample?
the exchange of heat, atmospheric gases, and other chemicals between the ocean and the atmosphere
ocean uptake
as you go up the energy pyramid, the energy is lost between trophic levels, the number of organisms ____
What is decreases?
lion versus a leech
Lions kill and eat but a leech just lives or feeds on its host.
What is the difference between a predator and a parasite.
the way two organisms of different species biologically interact in a relationship in which each individual derives a fitness benefit, example is a remora and a shark
What is mutualism
True or false
When new evidence is discovered scientist just stick to what is already known instead of testing and possibly modifying previous explanations or hypothesis
What is false?
salinity is the amount of salt dissolved in water and organisms have a specific range that they can survive in
what is the significance of salinity on aquatic systems?
The primary producers responsible for up to 70% of primary productivity near the ocean surface are
What is plankton