Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password


Make sure to remember your password. If you forget it there is no way for StudyStack to send you a reset link. You would need to create a new account.
Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

Science 2,22,24

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
        Help!  

Term
Definition
Ecology   study of the interactions of organisms with their envrionment  
🗑
Biosphere   composed of living commumites and nonliving physical and chemical factors / global ecosystem/ supports life  
🗑
Autotrophs   plants on land that use photosynthesis and can also be called producers ( also bacteria)  
🗑
Photoautotrophs   capture energy from the sun to make organic compounds through photosynthesis  
🗑
Chemoautotrophs   capture energy from chemicals to make organic compounds through chemosynthesis  
🗑
Heterotrophs   primary consumers, eat autotrophs, cannot make their own food  
🗑
Detritivores and Decomposers   recieve energy from dead matter and wastes  
🗑
Cellular repiration   auto. and hetero. carry out chemical reactions that release chemical energy in organic compounds  
🗑
Food chain   describe eating realationships or transfer of energy in one direction between organisms in an ecosystem  
🗑
Food webs   a network of interconnecting food chains  
🗑
Habitat   where particular organisms live  
🗑
10% rule   each trophic level reaches ammmount 10% of the energy from the level below it  
🗑
trophic structure   autotrophs, heterotrophs, hervivores, omnivores, carnivores  
🗑
Biomass   the total quantity or mass of organisms in an are or volume  
🗑
predation   a +/- interaction between two species in which one species eats the other  
🗑
niche   a particular combination of resourses that species is adopted to exploit  
🗑
symbiosis   living together in a long-term relationship with significant physical or chemical interactions  
🗑
Mutualism   both species benefit +/+  
🗑
Parasitism   one organism benefits at the others expense +/-  
🗑
Commensalism   one organism benefits and the other is unaffected +/o  
🗑
Competiiton   larger or stornger organism excludes a smaller or weaker one form living space or deprives it from food  
🗑
Behavior   an organisms conducts or the way it acts. affects the availablity of an individual organism to survive and reproduce  
🗑
Inate behaviors   anything influnced by genes, not based on expeierence  
🗑
Response   an organisms reaction to stimilus  
🗑
Stimiulus   anything that trigers behaivors  
🗑
Learned beheivors   develops as a result of experience  
🗑
Conditioning   one stimulus is associated with another unrelated stimulus  
🗑
Animal Societies   complex social group organized by genetically determined behavior patterns  
🗑
population density   the number of individuals per unit of land or area or water volume  
🗑
productivity   how fast more biomass is added to an ecosystem  
🗑
limiting factors   it determines how quickly biomass is added to an ecosystem and can be biotic or abiotic  
🗑
Expontential growth   growth by multiplying cells and quickly rising and then falling  
🗑
Carrying Capacity   largest popualtion of a species the environment can support and is always in logistic growth  
🗑
Logistic Growth   when the population keeps growing and eventually becomes stable  
🗑
Ecosystem   all the organisms in a community as well as the abiotic environment  
🗑
Succession   one type of communty repalces another  
🗑
Climax Community   complex relationships now exist in the community and it has reached a stable balance  
🗑
Primary Succession   begins on bare rock glacial deposits lake beds  
🗑
Secondary Succession   occurs in a disturbed site where soil is already present lake and abandoned field, forest fire, etc  
🗑
common pool resources   goods and services provided by ecosystems that can be used by everyone  
🗑
Sustainable   means we can continue to use ecosystem goods and services without ruining them for future generations  
🗑
pollution   harming human and animal health, creates acid rain which prevents forest from growing and affects aquatic life  
🗑
biodiversity   the variety of life in a world or particular habitat or ecosystem  
🗑
greenhouse gasses pros   they trap heat in the atmosphere. w/o them the earth would be too cool to sustain life  
🗑
greenhouse gasses cons   there is too much heat increasein our global climate = global warming  
🗑
what are the levels of organization an ecologist can study in order   organism, population, community, ecosystem  
🗑
what makes up a population   all the same organism in a species  
🗑
what makes up a community   different organisms of different species in an ecosystem  
🗑
what makes up an ecosystem   biotic and abiotic factors  
🗑
ways organisms use energy   to car out chemical reactions, move, and transport nutrients to build complex molecules for cells  
🗑
chemical energy vs free energy   free is available for work while chemical energy is formed and stored in organic molecules  
🗑
autotrophs get their energy by   photosynthesis and chemosynthesis  
🗑
how do heterotrophs obtain their energy   from other organisms, heterotrophs are carnivores, herbivores or omnivores.  
🗑
what is a tropic level   organism that share the same function in the food chain and same nutritional relationship to the primary sources of energy  
🗑
trophic levels in order from bottom to top   producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, Tertiary consumers, Quaternary consumers  
🗑
which tropic level contains the most biomass   produces because they obtain the most energy  
🗑
competitive exclusion principle   states that two spices cannot occupy the same niche in the same ecosystem for a long period of time  
🗑
benefits to an animal society   defense form predators, reproduction, group care of young, diffusion of labor, sharing of useful information  
🗑
dominance hierarchy   where animals in a group have certain individual dominance over others like gorillas or wolves  
🗑
caste system   leadership is determined by body type and genetics like bees and termites  
🗑
biochemical cycle   it cycles the chemicals between organisms and the earth  
🗑
3 processes that release co2 into the atmosphere   cellular respiration, decomposition, combustion  
🗑
role of photosynthesis in carbon cycle   allows plants to give off o2 which primary consumers use and take co2 out of the atmosphere  
🗑
consequences of climate change   rise in sea levels, damage to coastal cities, agricultural impacts, human health inputs due to air quality  
🗑
renewable vs nonrenewable   can be replenished(solar energy, air) verses things with a limited supply(coal, oil)  
🗑
difference between primary and secondary succession   primary takes longer and primary starts with less resources  
🗑
what happens to nitrogen before animal and plant use   it is fixed through nitrogen fixation caried out usually by bacteria and cyonobacteria  
🗑
water cycle   processes by which water circulates between earth's oceans, land, and atmosphere  
🗑
condensation   the conversion of gas to water  
🗑
plant transpiration   water movement through plant and evaporation from leaves stems and flowers  
🗑
infiltration   water on ground enters the surface soil  
🗑
solar radiation   radiant energy emitted b the sun in electromagnetic energy  
🗑
evaporation   type of vaporization from liquid into gas  
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: emassmann
Popular Biology sets