AP Bio Chapter 37

282903867	abiotic reservoir	The part of an ecosystem where a chemical accumulates or is stockpiled outside of living organisms
282903868	batesian mimicry	A type of mimicry in which a harmless species looks like a species that is poisonous or harmful to predators.
282903869	biodiversity	All of the variety of life; usually refers to the variety of species that make up a community
282903870	biomass	The dry weight of organic matter comprising a group of organisms in a particular habitat
282903871	coevolution	The mutual influence on the evolution of two different species interacting with each other
282903872	commensalism	A symbiotic relationship in which the symbiont benefits but the host is neither helped nor harmed.
282903873	community	An assemblage of populations of different species living close enough together for potential interaction.
282903874	competitive exclusion	The concept that when populations of two similar species compete for the same limited resources
282903875	decomposition	The breakdown of organic materials into inorganic ones.
282903876	detritivore	A consumer that derives its energy from nonliving organic material.
282903877	detritus	Dead organic matter.
282903878	disturbance	A force that changes a biological community and usually removes organisms from it
282903879	ecological succession	Transition in the species composition of a biological community, often following ecological disturbance
282903880	food chain	The pathway along which food is transferred from trophic level to trophic level, beginning with producers.
282903881	food web	The elaborate, interconnected feeding relationships in an ecosystem
282903882	interspecific competition	Competition for resources between plants or between animals when resources are in short supply.
282903883	keystone species	Species that are not usually abundant yet exert strong control on community structure.
282903884	müllerian mimicry	A mutual mimicry by two unpalatable species.
282903885	mutualism	A symbiotic relationship in which both participants benefit.
282903886	parasitism	A symbiotic relationship in which the symbiont benefits at the expense of the host
282903887	predation	An interaction between species in which one species, eats the other, the prey
282903888	primary consumer	An herbivore; an organism in the trophic level of an ecosystem that eats plants or algae.
282903889	primary production	The amount of light energy converted to chemical energy by autotrophs in an ecosystem during a time period.
282903890	primary succession	A type of ecological succession that occurs where soil has not yet formed.
282903891	producers	Organisms that make organic food molecules from inorganic raw materials
282903892	quarternary consumer	An organism that eats tertiary consumers.
282903893	resource partitioning	The division of environmental resources by coexisting species
282903894	secondary consumer	A member of the trophic level of an ecosystem consisting of carnivores that eat herbivores
282903895	secondary succession	A type of succession that occurs where an existing community has been cleared by some disturbance
282903896	tertiary consumer	A member of a trophic level of an ecosystem consisting of carnivores that eat mainly other carnivores.
282903897	trophic structure	The different feeding relationships in an ecosystem, which determine energy flow and chemical cycling.