Levels of Organization
Populations of organisms living in the same environment at the same time
What is a Community?
The study of relationships between living things and their environment
What is ecology?
To estimate population size to help them determine the health of a population
What is sampling.
If a population grows TOO much TOO quickly it is considered _______.
What is unhealthy?
A name for a j-shaped graph.
What is exponential?
Two or more members of a particular species living and interacting in the same area
What is a population?
Water is a ______ factor.
What is abiotic?
The three ways ecologists sample a population.
What is actual count, random sampling and mark and recapture?
The amount of these natural resources can affect the population size of a species.
What is water, food and shelter?
A name for a s-shaped graph.
What is logistical?
Fill in the blank:
Ecosystem ---> ________ ---> Biosphere
What is a Biome?
Define Biotic Factor.
What is any living thing that makes up an ecosystem?
Counting the organisms in a certain area and estimating the rest
What is random sampling?
The seasonal movement into and out of populations
What is migration?
When a population reaches the maximum number of individuals that the environment can sustain in the long term
What is carrying capacity?
All living and nonliving parts of an environment found in a specific location.
What is an Ecosystem?
When all members of a species have died
What is extinction?
If I wanted to estimate how many squirrels were in a park. How should I estimate the population
What is the mark and recapture method?
Arrival of individuals from outside a given area
What is immigration?
Where the line on the graph levels out on a s-shaped graph.
What is Carrying Capacity?
A ________ is a large region of Earth that has a certain climate and certain types of living things.
What is the biosphere?
Anything an organism needs to survive
What is a resource?
What is the population size of this zoom?
Answers will vary
A populations growth rate is determined (made up) by these four things.
What are births, deaths, immigration and emigration?
This type of graph shows a population growing and the growth rate is not slowing down.
What is j-shaped graph or exponential.