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Levels of Ecological Organization
Energy Flow in an Ecosystem
Response to Change
Population Ecology
Population Ecology
100
The study of the relationships between biotic and abiotic factors in environments.
What is the definition of an organism?
100
Herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and detritivores/ decomposers
What are the four classifications of heterotrophs?
100
Is the ecological change, the regular pattern of changes over time in the types of species in a community.
What does succession mean?
100
Is the area in which a population lives
What is geographic distribution?
100
Organisms reproduce at a constant rate
What is exponential growth?
200
means home, abode.
What does the root word "eco" mean?
200
Precipitation, soaks into the ground, then evaporates, and condenses back into liquid, and continues.
What are the basic steps of the water cycle?
200
The cutting of large areas of trees for use of building products, fuel, etc.
What is desertification?
200
The number of individuals in an area
What is population density?
200
The number of organisms an environment can support
What is an ecosystem`s carrying capacity?
300
An individual, living thing.
What is the definition of an organism?
300
Energy, biomass, and pyramid of numbers.
What are the three types of ecological pyramids?
300
Species, genetic, and ecosystem
What are the three types of biodiversity?
300
Resources become less available, growth slows or stops.
What is logistic growth?
300
Amount of food, amount of water, amount of space, predators, diseases, competetion
What are some dependent factors on current population density?
400
Community, Populations, Organism
List population, organism, and community in largest to smallest size.
400
Each step in a chain or web
What is a trophic level?
400
A cause of global warming
What is the greenhouse effect?
400
Unusual weather, natural disasters, and diseases.
What are three examples of density-independent factors can limit a population`s growth?
400
Population density
What is the number of individuals in an area?
500
Large area that has a particular climate with certain species of plants and animals living there.
What is the definition of a biome?
500
Oxygen has a use and we breath oxygen.
What is one example of how oxygen cycle impacts life on Earth?
500
Impacts are sea level rise, changes in agriculture, and water resources.
What are the three potential impacts of global warming?
500
Number of birth for a species, number of deaths for a species, emigration number of individuals who leave an area, and who come to an area.
What four factors affect population growth?
500
How populations change in any given area
What is population dynamics?