APES Miller 16th Ed. Ch. 5 Vocabulary Flashcards

38205756	interspecific competition	in a community competition for resources between members of different species	0
38205757	predation	interaction in which one organism captures and feeds on another organism	1
38205758	parasitism	symbiotic relationship in which one organism lives in or on another organism (the host) and consequently harms it	2
38205759	mutualism	symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit from the relationship	3
38205760	commensalism	symbiotic relationship in which one member of the association benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed	4
38205761	prey	an organism that is killed and eaten by another organism	5
38205762	predator-prey relationship	relationship that has evolved between two organisms, in which one organism has become the prey for the other	6
38205763	coevolution	evolution in which two or more species interact and exert selective pressures on each other that can lead each species to undergo adaptations	7
38205764	resource partioning	Species end up sharing or splitting the resource, which makes them no longer in competetion (Hawks & Owls--different time)	8
38205765	population dynamics	The study of how complex interactions between biotic and abiotic factors influence variations in population size.	9
38205766	age structure	the distribution of individuals among different ages in a population	10
38205767	biotic potential	the maximum reproductive rate of an organism, given unlimited resources and ideal environmental conditions	11
38205768	intrinsic rate of increase	rate at which the population of a species would grow if it had unlimited resources	12
38205769	environmental resistance	All the limiting factors that act together to limit the growth of a population.	13
38205770	carrying capacity	largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support	14
38205771	logistic growth	Growth rates regulated by internal and external factors that establish an equilibrium with environmental resources	15
39824921	secondary succession	refers to the channges after a communty is disrupted after a natural disaster or human actiona	16
39824922	inertia	The reluctance of any organism to change its state of motion	17
39824923	nonnative species	Species that migrate into an ecosystem or are deliberately or accidentally introduced into an ecosystem by humans.	18
39824924	primary succession	an ecological succession that begins in a an area where no biotic community previously existed	19
39824925	resilience	the ability to recover	20