Class blog by Sean Lewis

Niche

delvinroy18 — 2024-01-10 19:50:18 UTC

The role an organism plays in an environment. They believe that they found a niche in the mall

Producer

delvinroy18 — 2024-01-10 19:58:21 UTC

organism that make their own food. The producer makes some more vegetables and fruits in their garden

Consumer

delvinroy18 — 2024-01-10 20:01:15 UTC

An organism that cannot produce it own food. Bears and wolves are considered consumers

community

delvinroy18 — 2024-01-10 20:05:13 UTC

an interacting group of various species in a common area at the same time. Me and my people work as a community.

populations

delvinroy18 — 2024-01-10 20:11:40 UTC

a group of organism living in the same geographical area at the same time. The earth has a big population of adults on it.

ecosystem

delvinroy18 — 2024-01-10 20:14:05 UTC

a community of living organism in a particular area. what animals have important roles in the ecosystem?

symbiosis

delvinroy18 — 2024-01-11 19:08:31 UTC

interaction between two different organism living in close physical association, typically to the advantage of both. shrimp can go through symbiosis.

carrying capacity

delvinroy18 — 2024-01-11 19:14:57 UTC

the number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation. The united states has a huge carrying capacity.

logistic growth curve

delvinroy18 — 2024-01-11 19:21:48 UTC

In logistic growth, a population's per capita growth rate gets smaller and smaller as population size approaches a maximum imposed by limited resources in the environment, known as the carrying capacity. Yeast growth show a logistic growth curve

exponential growth curve

delvinroy18 — 2024-01-11 19:26:40 UTC

In an exponential growth curve, the slope grows greater and greater as time moves along. The mice population growth shows a exponential growth curve.

autotroph

delvinroy18 — 2024-01-11 19:30:54 UTC

an organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide. grass, wheat, and maize plant are all autotrophs.

heterotroph

delvinroy18 — 2024-01-11 19:47:50 UTC

an organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances. dogs, cats, and humans are all heterotroph

limiting factor

delvinroy18 — 2024-01-11 19:53:02 UTC

anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing. China back then would be considered a limiting factor.

climax community

delvinroy18 — 2024-01-11 20:02:51 UTC

A climax community is the “endpoint” of succession within the context of a particular climate and geography. A tundra ecosystem is considered a climax community

estuary

delvinroy18 — 2024-01-11 20:05:25 UTC

the tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream. At the beach, I always see a estuary.

greenhouse effect

delvinroy18 — 2024-01-11 20:08:12 UTC

The greenhouse effect is the process through which heat is trapped near Earth's surface by substances known as 'greenhouse gases.' Burning fossil fuels is one of the causes of the greenhouse effect

density dependent

delvinroy18 — 2024-01-11 20:11:56 UTC

Density dependent usually is seen as a linear, inverse relationship between population growth rate and population density. diseases, competition, and predation are density dependent factors.

density-independent

delvinroy18 — 2024-01-11 20:14:42 UTC

density-independent factor, in ecology, any force that affects the size of a population of living things regardless of the density of the population. migration and parasitism are density independent factors.

pioneer species

delvinroy18 — 2024-01-11 20:16:53 UTC

The term pioneer is used to describe the species that first colonize new habitats created by disturbance. grasses are considered a pioneer species.

decomposer

delvinroy18 — 2024-01-11 20:19:25 UTC

an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material. A fugus body is considered a decomposer.