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56 Cards in this Set
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What is the term used to define a group of individuals all of the same species living in the same area?
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Population
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What is the term used to define a group of populations living in the same area?
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Community
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What is the term used to define the interrelationships between the organisms in a community and their physical environment?
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Ecosystem
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The XXXXXXX is composed of all regions of the earth that is living.
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Biosphere
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What is the term used to define the type of place were an organism usually lives?
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Habitat
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What is the term used to define all the biotic and abiotic resources in the environment used by the organism?
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Niche
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What is the term used to describe the total number of individuals in a population?
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Size
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What is the term used to describe the total number of individuals per area or volume occupied?
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Density
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What is the term used to describe how individuals in a population are distributed?
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Dispersion
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What is the term used to describe the abundance of individuals of each age?
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Age Structure
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What is the term used to describe how mortaility of individuals in a species varies during their lifetime?
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Survivorship Curves
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What type of survivorship curve describes species in which most individuals survive to middle age?
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Type I
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What type of survivorship curve describes organsisms in which survivorship is random, that is, the likliehood of death is at any age?
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Type II
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What type of survivorship curve describes species in which most individuals die young.
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Type III
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What is the term used to describe the maximum growth rate of a population under ideal conditions, with unlimited resources and without any growth restrictions.
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Biotic Potential
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What is the term used to describe the maximum number of individuals of a population that can be sustained by a particular habitat?
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Carrying Capacity
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XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX are those elements that prevent a population from obtaining biotic potential.
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Limiting Factors
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What is the term used to describe limiting factors that become more intense as a population increases in size?
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Density-Dependent Factors
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What is the term used to describe limiting factors that occur independently of density dependent factors?
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Density-Independent Factors
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What is the term used to describe when the reproductive rate is greater than zero in population ecology?
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Exponential Growth
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What is the term used to describe when limiting factors restrict the size of a population growth to the carrying capacity of the habitat?
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Logistic Growth
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What is the term used to describe fluctuations in population size to varying effects of limiting factors?
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Population Cycles
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What is the term used to describe a growth pattern in which a species displays exponential growth?
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R-Selected Species
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What is the term used to describe a growth pattern in which the species' population size remains relatively constant?
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K-Selected Species
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What is the term used to describe competition between different species?
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Interspecific Competition
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What is the term used to describe the principle that no two species can occupy the same niche?
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Competitive Exclusion Principle
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What is the term used to describe the niche an organism occupies in the absense of competing species?
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Fundamental Niche
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What is the term used to describe any animal that totally or partly consumes another plant or animal?
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Predator
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What is the term used to describe an organism that spends most or all its life feeding on hist tissues?
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Parasite
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What is the term used to describe an insect that lays its eggs on the host, and the host is consumed by the hatched organism?
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Parasitoid
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What is the term used to describe an animal that eats plants?
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Herbivore
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What is the term used to describe two species that live together in close contact during a portion, or all their lives?
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Sybiosis
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What is the term used to describe a symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit?
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Mutualism
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What is the term used to describe a symbiotic relationship in which one species benfits and another is unaffected?
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Commensalism
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What is the term used to describe a symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits while the others fitness is reduced?
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Parasitism
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What is the term used to describe toxic chemicals produced in plants that discourage would-be herbivores?
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Secondary Compounds
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What is the term used to describe any color, pattern, shape, or behavior that enables animals to blend in with its surroundings?
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Camouflage
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What is the term used to describe a conspicuos pattern or coloration of animals that warns predators that they sting, bite, taste bad, and should be otherwise avoided?
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Aposematic Coloration
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What is the term used to describe when two species resemble one another in appearance?
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Mimicry
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What is the term used to describe when a group of species all have a special defense mechanism, have the same coloration?
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Mullerian Mimicry
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What is the term used to describe when animals without any special defense mechanism mimics the coloration of an animal that does possess a defense?
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Batesian Mimicry
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What is the term used to describe the change in species composition over time?
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Ecological Succession
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What is the term used to describe a community that changes very little overtime which is usually the end result of ecological succession?
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Climax Community
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What is the term used to describe a type of succession that occurs on substrates never previosly supported by living things?
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Primary Succession
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What is the term used to describe a type of succession begins in a habitat where communities were entirely or partly destroyed by some kind of damaging event?
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Secondary Succession
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What is the term used to describe autotrophs that convert energy of the sun into chemical energy?
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Primary Producers
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What is the term used to describe herbivores that eat primary producers?
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Primary Consumers
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What is the term used to describe species that eat primary consumers
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Secondary Consumers
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What is the term used to describe species that eat secondary consumers?
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Tertiary Consumers
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What is the term used to describe consumers that obtain energy by eating dead plant or animal matter?
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Detritovores
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XXXXXXX XXXXXX are used to show relationships between tropic levels?
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Ecological Pyramids
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What is the term used to describe the proprtion of energy represented at one tropic level that is transferred to the next tropic level?
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Ecological Efficiency
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What is the term used to describe N2 to NH4 by nitrogen fixing bacteria, or N2 to NO3 by lightning and UV radiation?
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Nitrogen Fixation
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What is the term used to describe NH4 to NO2, and NO2 to NO3 by various nitrifying bacteria?
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Nitrification
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What is the term used to describe convert NO3 back to N2?
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Denitrification
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What is the term used to describe converting organic compounds back to NH4?
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Ammonification
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