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Cards (25)

  • Biodegradable waste can be ___ by ___ ?

    decayed, bacteria
  • non biodegradable cannot be decayed by _____?
    bacteria
  • ISWM promotes the 3 what?
    3rs
  • zero waste approach promotes _____?
    recycling
  • waste segregation is?

    segregating waste
  • What level of biodiversity involves a variety of habitats and communities?
    Ecosystem Diversity
  • What term refers to species that provide early warnings of damage to a community or   an ecosystem?
     Indicator Species
  • What organisms have broad niches, can live in many different places, eat a variety of  foods, and often tolerate a wide range of environmental conditions?

    Generalist Species
  • What interaction/relationship exists between two organisms wherein one organism  benefits but has little, if any, beneficial or harmful effect on the other?

    Commensalism
  • A barnacle grows on a whale, doing it no harm. What relationship exists between these   two organisms?

    Commensalism
  • How do you call parasites that live outside the host?

    Ectoparasite
  • What relationship exists between clownfish and sea anemone?
    Mutualism
  • what is an example of interspecific competition?
    Trees and weeds growing in the same area
  • What form of deception is practiced by a variety of animals wherein they try to look,  act, smell or sound like something else, such as another organism or other natural  object, to gain some advantage of protections?
    Mimicry
  • Poison dart frogs wear some of the most brilliant and beautiful colors on Earth. Their  elaborate designs and hues are deliberately ostentatious to ward off potential   predators. What strategy is this?

    Warning coloration
  • Generalist species have what?
    broad niches
  • Specialist species have?
    certain niches
  • Native species are species that?
    normally live in an ecosystem
  • non native species are considered as?
    aliens or exotics
  • key stone species are species that?
    have a large effect on other species in an ecosystem
  • intraspecific competition is a competition between two organisms that?

    are the same species
  • interspecific competition is a competition between two organisms that?

    aren't the same species
  • temperate grasslands is?
    a prairie
  • tropical grasslands are?
    savannas
  • tropical rainforests are also found near the?
    equator