| A | B |
| Behavior | conduct of an organsism, one aspect of an adaptation, helps organism to surive |
| Innate Behavior | inborn, not dependent on experience |
| Learned Behavior | dependent on environmental description |
| Instincts | complex innate behavior |
| imprinting | has sensitive period, predetermined genetically |
| habituation | when exposed to a stimious over and over again until no more reaction |
| conditioning | training that associates a response with a stimulus different from innate behavior stimuous |
| pheromone | scent given off, causes reaction |
| habitat | place where an organism lives, specific animal |
| parasitism | + - response, predator, prey |
| commensalisms | + and netruel |
| mutualism | + + both benifit |
| Pavlov | russian scientist, all conditioning is learned behavior that is changed patterns of innate behavior |
| population | all the organisms of a particular species that live in a certain place at a certain time |
| animal societies | an organized population showing cooperative behavior |
| dominance hierarchies | behaviors which acknoledge what animal is dominant |
| caste systems | society that lives together that have specific seperate jobs |
| abiotic | without live, ex. sunlight, rain, temperature |
| niche | a job/ funcion of a particular animal |
| succession | the replacement of one community by another in a progression to a climaz community |
| climax community | a stable, self perpetuating community established by succession, semi perminant persists until interrupted by environmental change |
| biome | the distinctive plant cover and the rest of the community of organisms associated with a particular physical enviorment |
| trophic structure | the different feeding levels of an ecosystem that determine enerfy flow and pattern of chemical cycling |
| food chain | the transfer of food from one throphic level to another, starts with producers |
| food web | showing partial overlapping and competition, complex food chains |
| What are chemical cycles? | transfer/recycling, carbon diozide, water, nitrogen. Nothing can be created nor destroyed. |
| what test is used to test DO? | La Montt Kit |
| What type of biome/eco system is nevrs park? | deciduous forest |