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Evolution & Species
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is required for a successful adaptation to occur? | multiple mutations |
| The process by which a species acquires traits that allow it to better survive in its environment is? | Adaptation |
| What is the immediate response to environmental stress? | Acclimation |
| What is genetic adaptation? | the gradual change in characteristics of an organism that is passed onto future generations/ |
| the process of gradual change in species over time developed by Charles Darwin is? | evolution |
| As species evole and become better suited for survival other weaker or less fit species will be forced to change or not survive. what is this process called? | natural selection |
| the genetic changes that occur in some species are called? | mutation |
| What is the success of a mutation determined by? | Selection Pressures |
| what type of organisms have broad niches | generalists |
| what type of organisms have narrow niches and are limited by very specific needs? | specialists |
| what are highly specialized and found in only one place? | endemic species |
| what can avoid competition between species | resource partioning |
| Developing a new species is a process called? | speciation |
| when this occurs in the same place as the ancestors and genetic overlap occurs we call this | sympatric speciation |
| what occurs when species fight for limited space and resources? | competition |
| what is competition between the same species called? | intraspecific competition |
| when members of other species compete its called? | interspecific competition |
| The process by which any organism feeds directly from another living thing is called? | predation |
| Over time predator and prey evole in response to one another what is this called? | coevolution |
| two harmful species evolve to look alike what is this called? | mullerian mimicry |
| when a new species develops as members move away and evolve in a new location what occurs? | allopatric speciation |
| interactions between different species that can be beneficial to both oraganisms is? | symbiosis |
| the amount of biomass made in an ecosystem is a measure of what? | prodctivety |
| what type of energy is converted to chemical energy that can be used by consumers? | solar |
| what is the total number of members of all species in a community called? | abundance |
| the total number of different species in a community is called? | Diversity |
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