AP Unit 8 - Ecology Vocab Written

Shall we stand and fight?

• Yes, we shall stand and fight.
• We should run away.
• Let's negotiate instead.
• No, we should retreat.

• is an external or internal signal or combination of signals that causes a response from an organism 

  
  

involve teamwork between organisms of the same species 

use thermal energy generated by metabolism to maintain homeostatic body temperatures.

lack efficient internal mechanisms to regulate and maintain body temperatures 

rate per unit body and size of organisms have a correlation

is the amount of energy expended by an animal over a specific amount of time

is a position an organism occupies in a food chain.

how food is based from one organism to another 

consist of many interconnected food chains