Biomes
A forest biome with the highest precipitation and nutrient poor soil.
What is a tropical rainforest?
Bees pollinating food crops is an example of this ecosystem service.
What is supporting service?
A complex mix of rock particles, decaying organic matter, air, water, and living things is this.
What is soil?
An ecosystem with with a wide variety of organisms, no matter how many has high this.
What is species richness?
an area that drains all precipitated water to a singular point.
What is a watershed?
A cold biome with little precipitation, high winds, and permafrost
What is a tundra?
Education, recreation and spiritual value of an ecosystem is said to be this service
What is cultural service?
The type of soil with the smallest particle size
What is clay?
The pioneer species in primary succession are these
The largest carbon sink for CO2
What is the ocean?
A warm grassland with scatered trees, usually found in Africa and Australia. It has a long dry seasons with frequent fires.
What is a Savannah?
Flood protection and climate regulation are said to be this type of service
The soil layer composed of topsoil; most of the microorganisms reside in this level.
What is A?
This type of species will often overshoot their carrying capacity and then experience a population crash due to their fast population growth.
What are r-selected species?
An abiotic source for nitrogen fixation
What is lightening?
The biome near us with trees such as oak and maple that lose leaves in the winter.
What is a temperate or deciduous forest?
The most important ecosystem service because without it there would be no ecosystem
What is supporting service?
This agricultural practice causes soil erosion and releases carbon into the atmosphere
What is tilling?
In a food web, arrows point toward this
What is the receiver of energy or the thing that is eating?
the first organism in an area
What is a pioneer organism?
A coastal biome with hot, dry summers and mild, rainy winters.
What is Chaparral?
The ability of an ecosystem to provide goods such as medicine, timber, or food is this type of service
What is provisioning service
Soil, such as clay, that has high cation exchange capacity has a high capacity to hold this.
What is nutrients?
Any species that creates, significantly modifies, maintains or destroys a habitat (such as a beaver) is this.
What is an ecosystem engineer?
Ecosystem disruptions caused by humans is referred as this
What is anthropogenic?