Zoology chp. 6

The study of the relationships between organisms and their environment us called

• Zoology

• Biology

• Ecology

• Genetics

The native environment of an organism; where an organism lives is its

• Niche

• Habitat

• tolerance range

• house

The range of variation in an environmental parameter that is compatible with the life of an organism is

• tolerance range

• habitat

• niche

• limiting factot

Organisms that depend on others for food are

• eaters

• autotrophs

• producers

• heterotrophs

Having the ability to synthesize food from inorganic compounds

• heterotrophic

• autotrophic

• consumers

• animals

Population growth in which the number of individuals increases by a constant multiple in each generation is

• growth spurt

• logistic growth

• exponential growth

• S shaped growth

The constraints that climate, food, space, and other factors place on a population is

• logistic growth

• exponential groth

• environmental resistance

• handcuffing

The maximum population size that an environment can support is called

• logistic growth

• exponential growth

• seating capacity

• carrying capacity

Environmental parameters that influence the number of animals in a population without regard to the number of animals per unit space

• limiting factors

• density independent factors

• density dependent factors

• biotic factors

Competition among members of the same species for environmental resources is called

• interspecific competition

• intraspecific competition

• coevolution

• survival of the fittest