Head to Head
Two organisms require the same resources. There is a winner and a loser.
What is competition?
This symbol represents the flow of energy in a food chain.
What is an arrow?
When an organism blends in with its surroundings, like a stick insect on a branch.
What is camouflage?
Thanks to a year-round growing season and ample resources, equatorial regions are known for their high levels of this biological concept.
What is biodiversity?
Following a volcano, this type of succession will occur.
What is primary succession?
This category animals eat only producers.
What is an herbivore?
The largest population that an environment can support.
What is carrying capacity?
Species work together to protect an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
An oxpecker lives on large animals and eats ticks, parasites, earwax, and more from their coats. Everybody is happy and thriving.
What is mutualism?
Mrs. McKay's garden has bees, butterflies, spiders, finches, and a cat. This trophic level is missing from the list.
What are producers? Flowers? plants?
There will be a winner or loser. The loser will migrate, adapt, or ....
What is die?
The variety of different species and their abundance within a specific geographic area.
What is species diversity?
Anatomical adaptations or niche differences come about due to intense competition between species to lessen competition.
What is character displacement?
Dodder is a plant that crawls over other plants often causing harm to its host plant. Dodder is also called Witches Broom and is either yellow, orange, or pink. It doesn't have chlorophyll and therefore does not perform photosynthesis.
What is parasitism?
Their beak shapes, small changes, changed over generations to adapt to different food sources.
What is microevolution?
A lynx is a specialist predator. You would expect this to happen if another carnivore migrates into the lynx's habitat.
What is a decrease in the prey population?
This is the number of different species present in a specific area or ecosystem.
What is species richness?
The viceroy butterfly has coloration resembling a foul-tasting monarch butterfly is considered this defense.
What is mimicry?
Spanish Moss is an epiphyte and they get nutrients from the air and a place to hang out on a tree. The tree doesn't mind at all.
What is commensalism?
Following a disturbance, the ecosystem has the ability to recover in stages. Producers begin to grow almost immediately in this stage.
What is the pioneer stage?
What is the competitive exclusion principle?
This phenomenon occurs when two similar species require the same resource but only use part of the available resource.
What is resource partitioning?
The prey population has grown rapidly, possibly leading to overpopulation and resource depletion. This is the most likely cause.
What is a decline in predators?
Farmers often rotate their herds from one area to another in an effort to recover from this relationship the herds have with the land.
What is herbivory?
The natural process by which the atmospheric gases, such as water vapor and carbon dioxide, trap heat and keep the earth warm enough to sustain life.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?