Ecosystem Basics
What is an ecosystem?
What is the term for a system that includes living and nonliving things interacting together?
Which cycle includes evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
What is the water cycle?
What is the original source of energy for most ecosystems?
What is the Sun?
What is the maximum population size an environment can support called?
What is carrying capacity?
What term describes the variety of life within an ecosystem?
What is biodiversity?
What are living things within an ecosystem called?
What are biotic factors?
What process in the carbon cycle removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?
What is photosynthesis?
What type of organism can produce its own energy through photosynthesis?
What is a producer (autotroph)?
What do we call any resource or environmental condition that restricts population growth?
What are limiting factors?
How does biodiversity affect ecosystem resilience?
What is ecosystems recover more easily with higher biodiversity?
What are nonliving things within an ecosystem called?
What are abiotic factors?
What type of organisms play a major role in nitrogen fixation?
What are bacteria?
What do we call an organism that must consume other organisms for energy?
What is a consumer (heterotroph)?
Give one example of a limiting factor.
What are examples such as food, water, habitat, disease, or predators?
What is a keystone species?
What is an organism with a disproportionately large effect on an ecosystem?
A group of two or more species interacting in the same area is called this.
What is a community?
Which matter cycle is important for DNA and cell membranes?
What is the phosphorus cycle?
What graphical organizer shows the movement of energy through an ecosystem?
What is an energy pyramid?
If a population exceeds carrying capacity, what will most likely happen?
What is the population will decrease?
What type of succession starts from bare rock with no soil?
What is primary succession?
Name two abiotic factors that could affect an ecosystem.
What are examples like water, sunlight, temperature, soil, or oxygen?
Name the four major phases of the carbon cycle.
What are photosynthesis, respiration, decomposition, and combustion?
Approximately what percent of energy remains when transferred to the next trophic level?
What is 10%?
How do limiting factors affect carrying capacity?
What is they determine how many organisms an ecosystem can support?
What type of succession occurs after a disturbance when soil still remains?
What is secondary succession?