organisms and their environment
Non-living factor that affects an ecosystem
Abiotic factor
A ________________ is anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing.
limiting factor
What is the original source of almost all energy in most ecosystems?
Sunlight
Which type of memory lasts 15-30 seconds
Short term memory
According to the instructions on the bottles, should conditioning your hair be completed before or after shampooing?
After shampooing
An organism that produces its own food supply from inorganic compounds is called a(an)
Autotroph
The largest number of individuals in a species that an environment can support long term
Carrying capacity
If the producer starts with 10,000 kcal how much energy will be transferred to the secondary consumer
100 kcal
What was the first item on our shopping list from the game in class
Asparagus
In Pavlov's dog scenario, what was the unconditioned stimuli?
The dog food
Symbiotic relationship in which one organisms benefits and the other organism is not affected
Commensalism
Competition between members of different species.
Interspecific competition
What do the arrows represent in a food chain/web?
The arrows show the MOVEMENT OF ENERGY between organisms.
What are the three stages of memory
Encoding > Storage > Retrieval
A hungry rat received food each time he pressed the lever. The rat pressed the lever more often when he became hungry.
Positive reinforcement
What is an ecological model of the relationships that form a network of complex interactions among organisms in a community?
Food web
When organisms move out of the population, this is known as?
Emigration
The energy at each trophic level in the pyramid of energy decreases by a factor of ____.
90
What is the capacity of long-term memory?
Unlimited
Operant or classical conditioning:
results in involuntary behaviour?
Classical conditioning
Any relationship in which two species live closely together
Symbiosis
When a population grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity, what happens to the population?
The population starts to die off to return to carrying capacity
What are the three types of biological pyramids
Energy pyramid, biomass pyramid, pyramid of numbers
What type of Interference occurs when you cannot learn a new task because of an old task that had been learnt.
E.g. when you reset your password but can only remember the old one.
Proactive interference
Which type of operant conditioning is the below:
Remove a stimulus to decrease the behaviour?
Negative punishment