Unit 1
This rule allows us to estimate the amount of biomass needed to sustain a population of consumers, or is used to estimate the transfer of energy between trophic layers.
What is the 10% rule?
Biodiversity
What is a measure of the variance of life in a biome or region?
This type of species is able to readily adapt to changes in their environment, and can tolerate a wide range of conditions.
What is a generalist species?
What are plate tectonics?
This contributes to an increase in atmospheric carbon
What is, the burning of fossil fuels? (or other acceptable answer)
The range of conditions in an environment that an organism can tolerate.
What is ecological tolerance?
This species is adapted to a very small set of conditions and can not tolerate great disruption.
What is a specialist species?
This boundary is responsible for producing new oceanic plate/seafloor spreading.
What are major reservoirs of carbon?
The living and nonliving things that make up an ecosystem.
What are biotic and abiotic factors?
This type of organism has a reproductive strategy wherein they produce many offspring with little parental care.
R-selected
This parent material is known for having high porosity and permeability due to its large particle size.
What is Sand?
National parks allowing for recreation, tourism and appreciating nature.
What are cultural ecosystem services?
Island isolation and area.
What are the two main factors in the theory of Island Biogeography?
As a population nears this amount their growth will slow down, and eventually they will have a population die off.
Carrying capacity
This soil layer is characterized by an accumulation of nutrients, pollutants or other materials, and is known for having water flow through (eluviation)
What is the e-horizon or eluvial horizon?
This is caused by a runoff of nitrogen or phosphorus into bodies of water.
What is eutrophication/algea bloom/hypoxia?
When an ecosystem must recover from complete disruption, such as a volcanic eruption. Rocks are being broken down by lichen and mosses.
What is primary succession?
This stage of demographic transition is characterized by high birth rates with a decreasing death rate.
What is transitional/stage 2?
On this date, the Northern hemisphere experiences its longest day of the year.
The June/Summer solstice