Biomicicry , Multualism , Coevolution , Symbiosis, Mutualism

1. Biomicicry, Multualism, Coevolution, Symbiosis, Mutualism

2. GRAMA GRASS DESERT COTTONTAIL HARRIS’S HAWK A food chain is a model that shows a sequence of feeding relationships. • A food chain links species by their feeding relationships. • A food chain follows the connection between one producer and a single chain of consumers within an ecosystem.

3. carnivore decomposer • Herbivores eat only plants. • Carnivores eat only animals. • Omnivores eat both plants and animals. • Detritivores eat dead organic matter. • Decomposers are detritivores that break down organic matter into simpler compounds. • Consumers are not all alike.

4. Specialists are consumers that primarily eat one specific organism or a very small number of organisms. • Generalists are consumers that have a varying diet.

5. Trophic levels are the nourishment levels in a food chain. • Primary consumers are herbivores that eat producers. • Secondary consumers are carnivores that eat herbivores. • Tertiary consumers are carnivores that eat secondary consumers. • Omnivores, such as humans that eat both plants and animals, may be listed at different trophic levels in different food chains.

6. A food web shows a complex network of feeding relationships. • An organism may have multiple feeding relationships in an ecosystem. • A food web emphasizes complicated feeding relationships and energy flow in an ecosystem.

7. Biomimicry is • an emerging discipline that studies nature’s best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems.

8. A habitat differs from a niche. • A habitat is all aspects of the area in which an organism lives. • biotic factors • abiotic factors • An ecological niche includes all of the factors that a species needs to survive, stay healthy, and reproduce. • food • abiotic conditions • behavior

9. Resource availability gives structure to a community. • Species can share habitats and resources. • Competition occurs when two species use resources in the same way. • Competitive exclusion keeps two species from occupying the same niche.

10. Competitive exclusion has different outcomes. • One species is better suited to the niche and the other will either be pushed out or become extinct. • The niche will be divided. • The two species will further diverge.

11. Madagascar South America Ecological equivalents are species that occupy similar niches but live in different geographical regions.

12. Competition and predation are two important ways in which organisms interact. Competition occurs when two organisms fight for thesame limited resource. • Intraspecific competition • Interspecificcompetition

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14. Predation occurs when one organism captures and eats another.

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16. There are three major types of symbiotic relationships. • Mutualism: both organisms benefit

17. Commensalism Human Our eyelashes are home to tiny mites that feast on oil secretions and dead skin. Without harming us, up to 20 mites may be living in one eyelash follicle. Ø Demodicids Eyelash mites find all they need to survive in the tiny follicles of eyelashes. Magnified here 225 times, these creatures measure 0.4 mm in length and can be seen only with a microscope. + Ø + Organism is not affected Organism benefits • There are three major types of symbiotic relationships. • Commensalism: one organism benefits, the other is unharmed

18. Braconid wasp Braconid larvae feed on their host and release themselves shortly before reaching the pupae stage of development. 0 Parasitism + _ Hornworm caterpillar The host hornworm will eventually die as its organs are consumed by wasp larvae. _ Organism benefits Organism is not affected 0 • There are three major types of symbiotic relationships. • Parasitism: one organism benefits, the other is harmed

19. There are three major types of symbiotic relationships. • Parasitism meet their needs as ectoparasites (such as leeches) and endopaasites (such as hookworms)

20. Each population has a density, a dispersion, and a reproductive strategy.

21. Population density is the number of individuals that live in a defined area. • Population density is a measurement of the number of individuals living in a defined space. • Scientists can calculate population density.

22. Clumped dispersion Uniform dispersion Random dispersion Geographic dispersion of a population shows how individuals in a population are spaced. • Population dispersion refers to how a population is spread in an area.

23. clumped • There are three types of dispersion.

24. uniform • There are three types of dispersion.

25. random • There are three types of dispersion.

26. Survivorship curves help to describe the reproductive strategy of a species. • A survivorship curve is a diagram showing the number of surviving members over time from a measured set of births.

27. Type I—low level of infant mortality and an older population • common to large mammals and humans • Type II—survivorship rate is equal at all stages of life • common to birdsand reptiles • Survivorship curves can be type I, II or III. • Type III—very high birth rate, very high infant mortality • common to invertebrates and plants

28. Ecological succession is a process of change in the species that make up a community.

29. Succession occurs following a disturbance in an ecosystem. • Succession regenerates or creates a community after a disturbance. • a sequence of biotic changes • damaged communities are regenerated • new communities arise in previously uninhabited areas

30. primary succession — started by pioneer species • There are two types of succession.

31. secondary succession — started by remaining species • There are two types of succession.