Answers Graded A+
Chitin - Answer strong flexible, nitrogen-containing polysaccharide
Mycelium - Answer bundles of hyphae
Hyphae - Answer feeding structures that are a network for funguses (mushrooms)
Imperfect Fungi - Answer produces spores rapidly (includes mold and yeast)
Chytrids - Answer only fungi with flagellated spores
Predation - Answer one species (the predator) kills and eats another species
Herbivory - Answer consumption of plant parts or algae by an animal
Ecological Niche - Answer sum of the use of abiotic and biotic resources in the enviornment
Biotic Factors - Answer organisms within the environment, the living components of it
Abiotic Factors - Answer nonliving components of environment, like water, temp, and energy available.
Energy Flow - Answer passage of energy through components of an ecosystem
Eutruphication - Answer addition of nutrients into the environment
Biological Magnification - Answer increase in an conc. of a substance as it moves up the next tropic level
, Rainshadow Effect - Answer one side an area gets cloud and rain, but the other does not
Microclimates - Answer Smaller climates within a region
Transpiration - Answer water movement through plants, loss of water from a plant from evaporation
Natural Succession - Answer change in a community/community type over a disturbance
Productivity - Answer rate of energy capture (rate of photosynthesis)
10% Rule - Answer 10% of the energy in any trophic level goes into the next level
Ecology - Answer interactions of an organism within the enviornment
Carrying Capacity - Answer maximum population size that an environment can sustain
Demographic Transition - Answer shift from zero population growth in which birth rates and death rates
are high, but roughly equal, to a population growth characterized by low but roughly equal birth and
death rates.
Age Structure - Answer population of the number of individuals in different age-groups
Interspecific Competition - Answer population of 2 different species compete for the same limited
resource
Interspecific Interactions - Answer relationships with individuals of other species in the community
Mutualism - Answer both populations benefit
Ex: Flowers and bees