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Welcome to Ecology Biojeopardy!!
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How an Organism lives
Population Density and Dispersion
Population Growth
General Ecology
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Type of symbiosis where one individual benefits
while the other individual is harmed (slowly)
What is parasitism
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Occurs when one organism captures and eats
another organism
What is predation
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This is when two organisms fight for the same
limited organisms
What is competition
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Type of symbiosis that occurs where both
individuals benefit
What is mutualism
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The type of symbiosis that occurs when one
organism benefits and the other organism is
neither benefited nor harmed
What is commensalism
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In the Modeling Predation lab, we modeled
predation after an algal bloom and after a spawn.
In our model, a __________was hunting for
__________.
What is heron, fish
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Certain species of mites will live on the bodies
of flies (mostly for transportation). The mite
makes flight more difficult for the fly and also
affects its aerial hunting ability. This
interaction is _________
What is parasitism
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Oxpeckers are birds that run over the backs of
hippopotami and rhinoceroses. These birds rid
their partners of injurious and annoying pests
and in doing so obtain a ready supply of food.
This is an example of _______________
What is mutualism
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Humans have Demodicids (eyelash mites) that feast
on oil secretions and dead skin. We dont know
they are there. This is an example of
___________.
What is commensalism
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Name 2 examples of parasites
What are tapeworms and Plasmodium (causes malaria)
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All of the biotic and abiotic factors that make
up the area where a species lives
What is habitat
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This is an example of both an abiotic and biotic
factor in your environment
What is 1 living and 1 nonlivinganswers vary
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An organism that eats many types of prey is a(n)
_____________whereas an organism that eats just
one thing is a _________________.
What are generalist, specialist
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_________are organisms that do not regulate their
internal environments (example snakes).
______________use energy to regulate internal
conditions.
What is conformers, regulators
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3 events that happen in the Carbon Cycle
What are respiration, photosynthesis, fossil
fuels, etc.
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How energy flows from one organism to another in
a food web.
What is from producer to primary consumer to
secondary consumer, etc. The decomposers return
nutrients back to the soil
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This is one reason why it might hurt biodiversity
if you move an invasive species into a habitat
it doesnt currently occupy
What is it could better adapt to the niche or
have no natural predatorsit could drive native
species out or to extinction
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The piece of Earth from the depths of the ocean
to miles into the atmosphere where living things
are.
What is the biosphere
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One of the factors that makes up an ecological
niche the time of day a species is active as
well as where it reproduces.
What is behavior
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In this part of the hydrologic cycle, water
evaporates from trees (about 90 of the water).
What is another name for this process?
What is transpiration
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A measurement of the number of individuals living
in a defined space
What is population density
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Individuals may live in this kind of dispersion
pattern if they are territorial or compete for
the same resources often. (example is birds
nesting habits)
What is uniform dispersion
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In order to gain protection or help each other
out more readily in accessing food and other
resources, individuals within a population may
have this type of dispersion.
What is clumped dispersion
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The three-toed sloth is a
solitary animal, and it has no competitors and
few natural predators. It would most
likely live in a __________
dispersion pattern
What is random
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Organisms like birds, small mammals and reptiles
show survivorship roughly equal at all ages of an
organisms life. This is which Type of
survivorship curve
What is Type 2
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Organisms like salmon have this type of
survivorship
What is Type III
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This is the type of information a survivorship
curve shows
What is the number of surviving members in a
population over time.
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This is how population density and population
dispersal are different
What is population density measures the number of
individuals in an area (not how they are
grouped/spread out)
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This country has the highest population density
What is Bangladesh at 2200 people/mi2
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Scientists might infer this about a deers
habitat if the density of the deer population
decreases over a given time.
What is that resources may be depleted or
community may have changed due to arrival of a
new predator
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This is the type of growth that occurs when a
population size increases dramatically over a
period of time and there are unlimited resources
(producing a J-shaped curve)
What is exponential growth
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The movement of individuals out of a population
into another population
What is emigration (with an e)
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The maximum number of individuals of a particular
species that an environment can support
What is carrying capacity
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This is how birth rate and death rate are related
right before biotic potential is reached
What is birth rate is greater than death rate
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Parasitism and disease are examples of density
_________limiting factors
What is dependent
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The kind of factor that has the greatest effect
in keeping the population numbers LOW for any
given species
What is a limiting factor
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The type of population growth that has limiting
factors and produces an S-Curve
What is logistic growth
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An example of a density independent limiting
factor
What is unusual weather, natural disasters, and
human activity
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Net Primary Productivity
What is GPP-producers respiration
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A grasshopper feeds on meadow grasses. If a fire
burns its field, resources are diminished, and
carrying capacity is altered. What is one way
carrying capacity could be increased for this
population?
What is (e.g. high rain?grasses flourish!)
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The order of continents from most dense to least
dense
What is Asia, Europe, South America, Africa,
North America, Australia
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The human population is about _______billion, and
it is growing in an __________fashion
What is 7.1, exponential
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This type of ecosystem is characterized by very
large temperature changes from mid-day to night.
What are deserts
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A _________species is an organism that makes a
dramatic impact on organisms in its environment
What is keystone
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Three results of overpopulation (of humans)
What are overuse of fossil fuels, water and food
resources.
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An example of a__________ is a vultureit
scavenges on dead or decaying matter
What is a detritivore
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Organisms like the deep sea anglerfish usually
live in this ocean zone that is without light.
What is aphotic/abyssal zone
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The type of graph that shows percentage of
individuals (both males and females) of certain
ages. It allows us to see rapid, slow, and
zero growth.
What are Age Structures
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A location where permafrost is a permanent
structure
What is the tundra
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A lichen is an example of a pioneer species. But
this is what a lichen has to do with symbiosis
What is a lichen is two different species (algae
conducts photosynthesis and fungus collects water)
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