The Scope of Ecology | Patterns of Population Growth | Interactions Between Populations: Part 1 | Interactions Between Populations: Part 2 | Ecological Succession |
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A portion of the Earth's surface...
What is the biosphere?
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The ability of a population to increase under ideal environmental conditions...
What is biotic potential?
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Factors that affect populations the same...
What is the density-independent factor?
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Predators reduce prey in order to keep the populations in balance...
What is the predator-prey dynamic?
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A change in a community's composition that helps colonization by new species...
What is ecological succession?
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Communities of organisms living together...
What is an ecosystem?
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The rate of natural increase is per year while exponential growth is per month...
What is the difference between the rate of natural increase and exponential growth?
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Factors that affect a specific population based on size...
What is the density-dependent factor?
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Batesian and Mullerian...
What are the 2 types of mimicry?
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Primary and Secondary...
What are the 2 types of succession?
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Population is all of the members of the same species while community is all of the species in the same area...
What is the difference between population and community?
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Environmental resistance and carrying capacity...
What factors slow down exponential growth?
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D-I: weather, natural disasters, and pollution...
D-D: competition, predation, and parasites...
Name 2 examples of both density-independent and density-dependent?
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Parasitism, Commensalism, and Mutualism...
What are the 3 types of symbiosis?
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The final step of ecological succession...
What is a climax community?
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Coral reefs...
Which ecosystem is important for the biosphere?
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Latin America, Africa, and Asia...
What are 3 countries that are considered less-developed countries (LDCs)?
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No due to the competitive exclusion principle...
Can 2 niches occupy in the same area and why?
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Parasitism...
What is a tapeworm in a human an example of?
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Inhibition, tolerance, and facilitation...
What are the 3 succession models?
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Developing testable hypotheses...
What does ecology focus on?
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In less-developed countries, couples only have enough children to replace them...
In the less-developed countries, couples only have enough children to replace them
What is the replacement reproduction? |
Resource partitioning...
Two types of barnacles (Chthamalus and Balanus) live in the same area and compete for food. The Chthamalus grow on top of the rock while the Balanus grew on the bottom. What does this portray?
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Commensalism benefits one species but the other is no affected while mutualism both species benefit...
What is the difference between commensalism and mutualism?
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Tolerance model...
Which succession model predicts different types of plants that can colonize at the same time?
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