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Biology - Ecology

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What is the term for a relationship between two species in which both species benefit?
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What is the term for a relationship where one organism lives on or inside another organism and harms it?
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What principle states that no two species can occupy the same niche in the same habitat at the same time?
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What is the term for the part of a species' fundamental niche that it actually uses, limited by competition?
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What is the term for the niche a species could potentially occupy?
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What are the three major types of mutualism?
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What type of competition involves individuals interacting directly with one another by physical force or intimidation?
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What type of competition occurs when individuals consume and drive down the abundance of a resource to a point that other individuals cannot persist?
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What is the term for when two or more species with effective defenses share a similar appearance or signaling?
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What type of mimicry involves a harmless species looking like a species that is poisonous or otherwise harmful to predators?
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What is the term for a mutualistic relationship where two species are closely related and at least one member is completely dependent on the other?
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What is the term for a mutualistic relationship where two species are closely related but able to survive without each other?
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What type of mutualism involves the transfer of energy and nutrients between two species?
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What type of mutualism involves species that receive food or shelter from their partners in return for a defensive function?
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What type of mutualism involves partnerships in which animals disperse pollen or seeds of plants, generally for a food reward?
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What is the process by which two species evolve in response to changes in each other?
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What is the term for when one species positively impacts the fitness of another?
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What is the term for the suppression of one species by the presence of another?
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What is the term for succession that occurs in an area in which no trace of a previous community is present?
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What is the term for succession following a disturbance that destroys a community without destroying the soil?
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What is the term for the sequential replacement of species in a community by immigration of new species and by local extinction of old ones?
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What is the term for interactions that occur between different species?
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What is the term for interactions that occur within a species?
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What is the term for the amount of biologically productive land and water needed to support a person or population?
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What are examples of density-independent regulation factors?
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What is the term for factors affecting the size of a population regardless of the population's density?
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What is the term for a negative effect that is proportionately greater when the population is high, often affecting k-strategists?
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What is the term for population growth that is facilitated by an increase in population density?
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What is the term for population growth that is controlled by limited resources?
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What is the term for population growth with no limits and continuous reproduction?
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What type of survivorship curve indicates that death rates for a population peak early in life and decrease with age?
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What type of survivorship curve is characterized by a constant death rate, resulting in a linear survivorship?
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What type of survivorship curve is characterized by high survival rates early in life, with death rates increasing as individuals age?
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What is the term for the total number of offspring produced per individual in a cohort?
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What is the term for the relative number of individuals in each cohort within a population?
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What is the term for the concept that populations with short generations increase in size quicker than those with long generations?
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What is the term for the number of births in a population being directly related to the number of females?
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What is the term for populations that receive more immigrants than they send out?
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What is the term for populations that produce more dispersers than they receive?
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What is the term for groups of populations linked by immigration and emigration?
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What is the term for a population distribution pattern that results from an uneven distribution of resources and is common in nature?
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What is the term for a population distribution pattern where individuals do not interact strongly with one another and is not common in nature?
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What is the term for a population distribution pattern that results from competition over resources?
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What are the three types of spacing in population distribution?
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What is the term for the movement of organisms from one place to another?
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What is the term for the area throughout which a population occurs?
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What is the term for an organism that only grows until it reaches sexual maturity?
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What is the term for the ability to produce an abundance of offspring?
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What is the term for the number of lifetime breeding events an organism has?
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What is the term for an organism's lifetime pattern of growth, development, and reproduction?
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What is the term for a regularly interacting or interdependent group of biological entities forming a unified whole that functions in an ecological context?
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What is the term for species with shorter lifespans, generally smaller, and produce many young?
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What is the term for species that are larger, have longer lifespans, and produce few young at a time?
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What is the term for changes in surface antigens that occur in a microbial population?
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What is the term for a single reproductive episode before death?
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What is the term for repeated reproduction throughout an organism's lifetime?
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What is the term for a predator species that reduces the density of the strongest competitors in a community, thereby helping maintain species diversity?
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What is the term for the point where growth is most rapid in an organism's lifetime?
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