front 1 individual | back 1 first level that can live on its own environment |
front 2 population | back 2 consists of all individuals belonging to the same species w/ in given area |
front 3 community | back 3 collection of populations in a given area that interact with each other |
front 4 ecosystems | back 4 multiple communities involving nonliving environments |
front 5 biosphere | back 5 includes all ecosystems on Earth |
front 6 kinesis | back 6 random movement |
front 7 taxis | back 7 movement in specific direction |
front 8 phototropism | back 8 occurs because plants possess hormones in the tips of stems |
front 9 auxins | back 9 group of plant hormones |
front 10 photoperiod | back 10 number of sunlit hours |
front 11 circadian clock | back 11 24 hr clock that regulates wide range of activities |
front 12 innate behaviors | back 12 instinctive behaviors that are performed w/o previous experinces |
front 13 learned behaviors | back 13 individuals experience behavior in environment |
front 14 habituation | back 14 animals learn over time to ignore a stimulus |
front 15 operant conditioning | back 15 animal is rewarded or punished after a behavior |
front 16 imitation | back 16 individuals learn a behavior from watching other individuals perform |
front 17 cooperative behavior | back 17 members of the same species exhibit behaviors that improve another individuals fitness |
front 18 endotherms | back 18 body temp is regulated internally |
front 19 ectotherms | back 19 organisms that generate small amounts of heat impacted by external conditions |
front 20 metabolic rate | back 20 # of calories that organism burns over time while at rest |
front 21 chemosynthesis | back 21 obtain energy from chemical compounds to build sugars |
front 22 autotrophs | back 22 producers |
front 23 heterotrophs | back 23 organisms that obtain energy by eating other organims |
front 24 tropic levels | back 24 auto + heterotrophs organized into successive levels |
front 25 sedimentation | back 25 carbon moves between pools using processes of exchange |
front 26 extraction | back 26 removal of buried carbon |
front 27 combustion | back 27 transforms fossils fuels from fossilized carbon sources into CO2 |
front 28 thermorgulation | back 28 process of an organism controlling body temp. |
front 29 food chain | back 29 direction of energy & matter flow between trophic levels |
front 30 food webs | back 30 depictions of how energy and matter flow among large # of species |
front 31 pools | back 31 places an element resides |
front 32 proccesses | back 32 ways an element moves from one pool to another |