Biomes, species & Community
A region or location that has specific species of plants and animals and a specific climate.
What are Biomes?
The non-living components of an ecosystem.
What is Abiotic?
Living things that can produce their own food source.
What are Producers?
TEK refers to
A. Traditional Educational Knowhow
B. Traditional Economic Knowledge
C. Traditional Ecological Knowledge
What is C?
Stressors for the environment are.
Habitat loss/fragmentation
loss of large carnivores
air pollution
water pollution
pesticides
overuse/overcrowding
invasive species?
The process of plants taking abiotic elements and turning them into a food source.
What is photosynthesis?
The living components of an ecosystem.
What is biotic?
Living things that break down dead plant and animal matter.
What are Decomposers?
The natural process where water moves up from a plant's roots and evaporates as water vapor into the atmosphere.
What is Transpiration?
examples of natural disturbances of an environment.
Disease
Forest fires
flood
drought
hurricanes
volcanic eruptions
windstorms
A group of two or more species that are interconnected and occupy the same geographical region.
What is a community?
Three examples of biotic elements.
What are plants, trees, animals, insects, birds?
Carnivores eat:
Ominvores eat:
Herbivores eat:
Other animals
a combination of plants and animals
only plants
natural, non-renewable energy sources made from the buried, decomposed remains of ancient plants and microorganisms over millions of years
What are fossil fuels?
A fully developed ecosystem is called this.
What is a climax community?
A group of living organisms that share similar genes and can interbreed.
What is Sunlight, rock, soil, air?
Living things that need to consume other living things as a food source.
Waste can be a part of two cycles. Which two are they?
What are nitrogen and carbon cycles?
The order of succession is as follows.
Lichens/mosses, annuals, perennials andgrasses, shrubs/small animals, conifers (evergreens), deciduous(lose leaves), stable community.
The downward movement of water through soil, sand, gravel, and permeable rock due to gravity.
What is Percolation
The process that breaks down sugars and produces water and carbon dioxide.
a. cellular respiration
b. carbon cycle
c. water cycle
A. what is cellular respiration?
The seven sacred Teachings
What are Wisdom, Love, Respect, humility, courage, honesty, and Truth?
a biological process where specialized bacteria reduce soil or water nitrates (NO₃⁻) into gaseous nitrogen products
What is Denitrification?
The process of clouds forming.
What is condensation?