Nature of Ecology
The study of the relationships between organisms and their environment.
Ecology
What is the process of interrupting the movement of water?
Interception
What is a group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area at the same time?
Population
What is all of the living organisms found in a particular area?
Community
What is anything that absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases (ex. plants, ocean and soil)?
carbon sink
In the ecological hierarchy, what is the most basic unit or a single organism?
Individual
The property of a material that measures the force necessary to separate the molecules and allow an object to pass through
Viscosity
What is the spatial distribution of individuals within the population?
Dispersion
What principle is when organisms are competing for the same resource, there is often a winner and loser? It states no two species can occupy the same niche in the same habitat at the same time.
Competitive exclusion principle
What is the intentional large-scale manipulation of the environment to reduce undesired anthropogenic climate change?
Geoengineering
Which branch of ecology aims to recreate, initiate, or accelerate the recovery of an ecosystem that has been disturbed?
Restoration ecology
The decrease on the intensity of light over distance (depth in the ocean)
Attenuation
What is the amount by which a population’s size changes in a given time.
Growth rate
What phenomenon occurs when two species are in intense competition, one or both species may evolve: niche differences or anatomical differences that lessen the intensity of the competition?
Character displacement
In 1997, 84 countries signed the ___________________ agreeing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to below 1990 levels.
Kyoto Protocol
What is the curving path of objects or fluids due to Earth's rotation?
Coriolis Effect
What quantifies the amount of leaf material in a canopy?
Leaf Area Index (LAI)
What is the movement of individuals out of an area.
Emigration
This is the relationship between the number of species in the community to the relative abundance of each species.
Species diversity
In 2016, 195 countries/parties signed the __________________________ pledging to take action to limit warming to less than two degrees Celsius.
Paris Agreement
What is the amount of energy released or absorbed during a change of state?
Latent heat
What law refers to the more concentrated solution absorbs more light than a more dilute solution does
What is a model of population growth in which growth slows or stops following a period of exponential growth.
Logistic growth
What is a pattern of species richness that states a larger areas usually contain more species than smaller areas do?
Species-Area effect
What is the warmer period of time between ice ages where glaciers retreat (ablation) and sea levels rise?
Interglacial