Key Terms Used

Responses to the Environment Key Terms:

1. Heterotroph

2. Innate behavior

3. Learned behavior

4. Response

5. Stimulus

6. Focal sampling

7. Scan sampling

8. Ethogram

Energy Flow Through the Ecosystems Key Terms:

1. R-strategists

2. K-strategists

3. Food web

4. Tertiary consumer

5. Secondary consumer

6. Primary consumer

7. Primary producer

8. Trophic level

9. Biomass

10. Abiotic factors

Population Ecology and Effect of Density of Populations:

1. Habitat 

2. Population

3. Organism

4. Species

5. Prey

6. Ecosystem

7. Carrying capacity

8. Logistic growth

9. Exponential growth

10. Limiting factor

11. Environment

12. Lincoln Index

Community Ecology and Biodiversity:

1. Community

2. Apex predator

3. Predator

4. Niche

5. Niche partitioning

6. Interspecific competition

7. Competitive exclusion

8. Trophic cascades

9. Symbiosis

10. Parasite

11. Parasitism

12. Biodiversity

13. Shannon-Wiener Index

14. Simpson Index

15. Species diversity

16. Species richness

17. Foundation species

18. Keystone species

19. Biotic Factors  

Disruptions to Ecosystems:

1. Invasive species