What's in the community
Cycles
Evolution
Energy
What's your role?
100
A community of living organisms of all different species interacting with one another and the physical and chemical factors of their nonliving environment
What is an ecosystem?
100
The process occurring at "C" in this diagram of the water cycle.
What is transpiration?
100
In this diagram, this letter accurately depicts the punctuated model of evolutionary change.
What is C?
100
The amount of energy that is transferred from one trophic level to another in a food chain.
What is 10%?
100
Has the highest Net Primary Productivity of any terrestrial (land) ecosystem.
What is Tropical Rainforest?
200
A group of individuals of the same species occupying a given area at the same time
What is a population?
200
When purchasing a bag of fertilizer, such as 24-12-17, it is the middle number, in this case "17".
What is phosphate?
200
Has a very narrow diet, eats little variety, as in the case of a panda.
What is a specialist species?
200
In any transformation of energy, the lost energy is given off in this form.
What is heat?
200
A species that completes a role in the ecosystem that no other species completes, such as a honeybee.
What is a keystone species?
300
Organisms that feed on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
300
This cycle has the largest nutrient reservoir in the atmosphere.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
300
Often confused as "Survival of the Fittest."
What is natural selection?
300
In terms of matter and energy in an ecosystem, this is always recycled.
What is matter?
300
The species pictured here is considered one of these in North America.
What is an invasive or nonnative species?
400
A group of individuals of different species occupying the same space at the same time.
What is a community?
400
The burning of fossil fuels is amplifying the greenhouse effect in this cycle.
What is the carbon cycle?
400
When one species has two populations that become separated over a long period of time due to some obstruction such as a mountain, ocean or continental movement which leads to the development of two new species.
What is geographic isolation?
400
In this diagram, these are the primary consumers.
What are the Grasshopper, Rabbit, and Mouse?
400
The niche of the living animals seen here.
What is detritus feeder?
500
An osprey that feeds on a rabbit that feeds on clover
What is a secondary consumer?
500
In the Nitrogen Cycle, it is the process occurring at location A.
What is denitrification?
500
When humans breed animals or plants so that they exhibit the traits that we desire.
What is Artificial Selection?
500
In this diagram of a food chain, this is the number of kcal available to the eagle.
What is 10 kcal?
500
Although both saprotrophs, detritus feeders are different than decomposers for this reason.
What is that detritus feeders have a mouth?