Ch 5 Vocab Review

2. A food ___________ is a linear series of feeding relationships.
5. A relationship in which one organism depends on another for nourishment.
6. Where two or more benefits (+/+). Ex. Bees and flowers.
9. The process of selection conducted under human direction is:
11. A predictable series of changes within a community.
12. Any species that has a strong or wide-reaching impact on a community is a _________ species.
14. A relationship where one benefits and the other is unaffected (+/0). Ex. Trees providing shade.
15. The process by which new species are generated is called:

1. The ability to survive and reproduce under changing environmental conditions.
3. Heritable traits that increase an individual’s fitness.
4. Consume nonliving organic matter such as roadkill.
7. A visual map of feeding relationships and energy flow that show many paths.
8. Describes how reproductively successful an organism is in its environment.
10. Changes in DNA.
13. The change in a population’s gene pool over time.