Energy, Behavior, and Populations
What role do different organisms play in the flow of energy in an ecosystem? How does behavior influence individual fitness and population success? What mechanisms regulate population growth? Test your understanding of population dynamics in ecosystems with this question set.
Topics
- AP
- AP Biology
- AP Bio
- next generation science standards
- NGSS
- population
- population dynamics
- animal behavior
- innate behavior
- learned behavior
- chemotaxis
- taxis
- kinesis
- habituation
- imprinting
- fitness
- natural selection
- reproductive success
- survivorship curves
- r-strategist
- r-selection
- k-strategist
- k-selection
- fecundity
- exponential growth
- logistic growth
- carrying capacity
- density-dependent
- density-independent
- limiting factors
- resources
- birth rate
- death rate
- trophic level
- food web
- food chain
- energy flow
- heterotroph
- autotroph
- consumer
- producer
- abiotic
- biotic
- ecosystem
- fruit flies
- drosophila
- prairie dog
- colony
- group behavior
- social behavior
- Antarctica
- E.coli
- succession
- pioneer species
- climax community
- predator
- prey
- parasite
- invasive
- wildfire
- roundworms
- reindeer
- elephant
- C. elegans
- Daphnia