Questions and CORRECT Answers
Taxonomy - CORRECT ANSWER - domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family,
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Global Ecology - CORRECT ANSWER - examines howw the regional exchange of
energy and materials influences the functioning and distribution of organisms across the
biosphere
landscape ecology - CORRECT ANSWER - focuses on the factors controlling exchanges
of energy, materials, and organisms across multiple ecosystems.
ecosystem ecology - CORRECT ANSWER - emphasizes energy flow and chemical
cycling between organisms and the environment.
community ecology - CORRECT ANSWER - examines how interactions between species,
such as predation and competition affect community structure and organization.
populations ecology - CORRECT ANSWER - analyzes factors that affect population size
and how and why it changes through time
abiotic - CORRECT ANSWER - nonliving
biotic - CORRECT ANSWER - living
population - CORRECT ANSWER - group individuals of a single species living in the
same general area
, carrying capacity - CORRECT ANSWER - the maximum population size the environment
can support
interspecific interaction - CORRECT ANSWER - competition, predation, herbivory,
symbiosis including parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism and facilitation.
interspecific competition - CORRECT ANSWER - a -/- interaction that occurs when
individuals of different species compete for a resource that limits their growth and survival
ecological niche - CORRECT ANSWER - the sum of a species use of the biotic and
abiotic resources in its environment
herbivory - CORRECT ANSWER - +/- interaction in which an organism eats part of a
plant or alga.
symbiosis - CORRECT ANSWER - when individuals of two or more species live in direct
and intimate contact with one another.
parasitism - CORRECT ANSWER - a +/- symbiotic interaction in which one organism,
the parasite, derives its nourishment from another organism, the host.
mutualism - CORRECT ANSWER - an interspecific interaction that benfits both species (
+/+)
commensalism - CORRECT ANSWER - interaction between species that benefits one of
the species but neither harms nor helps the other ( +/0)
facilitation - CORRECT ANSWER - species that have a positive effect on the survival and
reproduction of species without necessarily living in the the direct intimate contact of a
symbiosis