Ecosystem Flashcards

What is a Species?

What is Reproductive Isolation?

Mechanisms for Reproductive Isolation

What is a Population?

What is a Community?

What is an Ecosystem?

What is a Biosphere?

What are Abiotic Factors?

What are Biotic Factors?

What is exploitation and predation?

What is Competition?

What is Symbiosis?

Explain the three types of Symbiosis?

Provide examples for each

What is an autotroph/producer?

What is a heterotroph/consumer?

What are Decomposers?

What are the abiotic and biotic factors of a rainforest environment?

What are the abiotic and biotic factors of a
Arad Scrubland environment?

What are the abiotic and biotic factors of a Open Ocean environment?

What are the abiotic and biotic factors of a Polar Ice Caps environment?

What are Algal Blooms?

What causes Algal Blooms?

What is Productivity?

How is Productivity expressed?

What limits Productivity?

Food chains

Why are food chains usually only four to five trophic levels long?

Why does the number of organisms in each trophic level generally decline as you move through the food chain?

What are the causes of Global Warming?

What are the consequences of Global Warming?

What are the features of a r-selected or opportunistic organism?

Provide examples

What are the features of a k-selected or equilibrium organism?

Provide examples

Which reproductive strategy do Humans use?

What is Succession?

What are the types of Succession?