Unit 2 Env. Science

What word refers to the amount of different habitats in a given area?

What word refers to the number of different species in an ecosystem? (Balance of the population sizes as well)

What word refers to how diverse the genes are of individuals within a given population of species?

What word refers to the total number of different species in a given ecosystem?

What word refers to an environmental disturbance that drastically reduces a population size? (Reduces Biodiversity)

What word refers to the act of animals mating with more closely related members of a population? (Family)

What word refers to the ability of an ecosystem to return to its original state after a disturbance?

What word refers to goods that come from natural services?

Can humans disrupt ecosystem services?

What kind of service involves goods that are directly provided to humans by an ecosystem? (Can be affected by deforestation, overharvesting, pollution)

What kind of service involves a natural process that regulates natural conditions, such as climate or air quality? (Can be affected by deforestation)

What service involves the support derived from an ecosystem in helping a process humans do, making it easier and cheaper to do?

What service involves the revenue obtained from natural recreational activities (like tourism)?

What word refers to the study of ecological relationships and community structures on islands?

Do bigger islands support more species?

Does island distance between mainland affect its biodiversity?

Are islands unique spaces for evolution?

What word refers to the rapid evolution of a single species so they can use different resources, reducing competition as a result?

What refers to the range of conditions an organism can endure before injury or death?

What range of tolerance is where an animal can coexist peacefully?

What zone of tolerance allows animals to survive, albeit with some disturbances like infertility or decreased activity?

What zone of tolerance kills the organism?

What is something that disrupts the function of an ecosystem?

What time frame of disturbance occurs with regular frequency?

What time frame of disturbance occurs with irregular frequency?

What time frame of disturbance occurs with no regular frequency?

What word refers to the relocation of wildlife as a result of a natural disruption?

What word refers to the increase in an organism’s survivability from a new genetic trait?

What word refers to the fact that some organisms are better adapted for survival than others?

What word refers to the environmental condition that kills the organism that didn’t adapt?

Does the environment an organism is in influence what is an adaptation?

What refers to the likelihood that a species can adapr to an environmental change depending on how fast the environment changes?

What word refers to a series of predictable stages of growth that a forest goes through?

Which kind of succession occurs on bare rock where a plant grows over the rock regardless of any kind of soil formation?

What kind of succession occurs after an area with established soil undergoes change as a result of a disturbance?

What species appear during succession? (Seeds dispersed by the wind)

What species appear after pioneer species developed a deep state of soil?

What species appear last during succession?

What organisms typically grow on bare rock during Primary Succession?