Ecosystems
What is Species
What are the three main nutrient cycles?
What is the Carbon cycle, Nitrogen cycle, and the Phosphorus cycle.
Primary producers obtain energy from what?
The sunlight
The graph that shows how populations increase exponentially and forms a shape that represents a letter in the alphabet is called?
What is the "J" curve.
This Biome has minimal rainfall, and organisms are adapted to water loss, while temperatures are very hot during the day but cold at night.
What is a Desert.
Organisms that require the same resource in the same location at the same time is called what?
Competition
This chemical reaction occurs when it converts solar energy and atmospheric carbon dioxide gas into a chemical energy.
What is Photosynthesis
These creatures break down dead and decaying matter into simpler molecule that can be absorbed.
What is a "Decomposer"
When the limiting factors limit the growth of a population, this curve levels off at the carrying capacity and is called?
What is the "S" curve.
A average pattern of weather conditions that occur in a region over a period of years is called what?
Climate
Barnacles attach to whales and are transported to new locations in the ocean is called what?
What is commensalism.
Ammonium is converted into nitrate and nitrite through what process?
Nitrification
Arrows in a food web show the transfer of what?
What is Energy
Animals that have fewer offspring, are strong/well-protected, usually large, and have long life expectancy are called?
What is "K" strategists.
What 4 factors influences temperature and precipitation
What are: Latitude, elevation, wind, and ocean currents.
A introduced invasive species can make a natural habitat unsuitable for native species by changing its structure or composition is called what
What is habitat alteration
This cycle does not cycle through the atmosphere but weathering causes it to enter water or soil.
What is the Phosphorous cycle
The time it takes for the amount of a substance to decrease by half is called what?
What is "PCBs/half-life"
The number of offspring produced is called what?
What is Fertility
What is an introduced predator?
Predation
These species have large impacts on their habitats as they affect many other species.
What is the "Keystone Species"
High levels of nitrogen causes a increased amount of algal growth in aquatic ecosystems, depriving aquatic organisms of sunlight and oxygen is called what?
Eutrophication
This term refers to the process in which pollutants not only accumulate, but also become more concentrated at each trophic level.
What is Biomagnification
The addition of new individuals is called what?
What is Natality
These species are the first organisms to inhabit barren environments.
Pioneer Species