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Ecosystems
Chemistry of Life
Species Interactions
Population Dynamics
Mixed Bag
100
Living and once living parts of the environment.
What is a biotic factor in the environment?
100
Subatomic particles found in the nucleus of an atom.
What are protons and neutrons?
100
Multiple predator-prey interactions
What is a food web?
100
The number of individuals that can be indefinitely supported by a given area.
What is carrying capacity?
100
Sunlight, water, trees
What are examples of a renewable resource?
200
All members of a species that live in an area.
What is a population?
200
A chemical bond where atoms are shared.
What is covalent?
200
The position an organism is on the food chain
What is the trophic level?
200
A growth strategy focused on long-term development and a long life.
What is K-strategy?
200
The main reason that the human population has grown so fast in the last 100 years
What are improvements in medicine?
300
The belief that nature deserves to exist for its own sake.
What is Biocentric Preservation?
300
The four major categories of organic compounds in a cell.
What are lipids, carbohydrates, proteins, and nucleotides?
300
A form of symbiosis where both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
300
Factor that slows down population growth and change from J to S curves.
What is environmental resistance?
300
The energy contained in moving objects
What is Kinetic Energy?
400
Stability in ecosystems is generally maintained by this type of feedback.
What is negative feedback?
400
The number of electrons that fill the outer energy levels of an atom.
What is 8?
400
The correct order for a food chain of the following organisms? grasshopper, owl, robin, leaf
What is leaf - grasshopper -- robin -- owl.
400
An organism whose impact on its ecosystem is especially large and influential.
What is a Keystone Species?
400
Inheritance of specific genetic traits that control adaptations, giving a species an advantage in an environment.
What is Evolution?
500
Limiting human impact on the natural world so our civilization can continue to exist.
What is sustainability?
500
A measure of the H+ concentration in a solution.
What is pH?
500
The description of the role played by a species in a biological community.
What is the Ecological Niche?
500
The changes or recovery of a community after a natural or man-made disturbance.
What is secondary succession?
500
The average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime.
What is Total Fertility Rate?