Chapter 15
These are animals that have a backbone and are the most recognized in the animal kingdom
Vertebrates
These detail the life expectancy of individuals within a population at each age
Life Tables
These systems consist of communities of living organisms and their interactions with the non-living (abiotic) environment
Ecosystems
This is the variety of life on earth
Biodiversity
What phylum is the largest in the animal world
Arthropoda
This term describes how individuals of a species are spaced within a habitat at a given point in time
Species Distribution Pattern
These large-scale communities are in regions with similar climates and environmental conditions
Biomes
Species that are only found in one place in the world are known as this
Endemic species
Animals are classified based on these three characteristics
1)Anatomy 2) Embryological development 3) Genetics
This term refers to a group of interacting populations that live together in the same habitat WITH the number of different species in a habitat and how evenly individuals are distributed among those species being this
Ecological Community & Community Diversity
This linear sequence shows how energy and nutrients pass from one organism to another, while this more complex model shows multiple feeding relationships among species in an ecosystem
Food Chain & Food Web
This medicine is created from secondary plant compounds
Aspirin
These two types of animal body structures include one with no pattern at all, like sponges, and another with a body that can be divided into mirror halves from multiple angles, like sea anemones
Asymmetrical & Radial symmetry
This process describes the sequential appearance and disappearance of species in a community over time following a disturbance, and it occurs in these two types
Primary & Secondary Succession
This process describes how toxic substances become more concentrated in the fatty tissues of organisms at each higher trophic level in a food chain and was famously described by Rachel Carson
Biomagnification
What is threat of species?
This egg adaptation allowed early reptiles/birds/mammals to move to land and was a significant evolution change
Amniotic Membranes
Populations that are not exponential and have a maximum number of individuals of a species that can be sustainably supported have this
Carrying Capacity
These two terms describe how ecosystems respond to disturbance: one refers to how quickly an ecosystem returns to equilibrium WHILE the other refers to its ability to maintain equilibrium despite disturbance
Ecosystem Resilience & Resistance
An Ecosystem baseline or "normal state "changes with each generation and leads to gradual gradation is known as this
Shifting Baseline