Ecology Vocab
Biomes
Food Chains/Webs
Biodiveristy
Carbon Cycle
100
A group of similar organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring?
What is a species?
100
Very dry with plants spread out to reduce competition for water. Can be hot or cold
What is the desert?
100
An animal that eats big chunks of dead organisms (Vulture, Coyote...)
What is a scavenger?
100
To variety of different genes within a species
What is genetic biodiversity?
100
Removes carbon dioxide from the atmopshere
What is photosynthesis?
200
Rocks, Soil, Water, Sunlight
What are abiotic factors?
200
Extremely cold, layer of permanently frozen soil called permafrost
What is the tundra?
200
The start of all food webs
What is a producer/autotroph?
200
The variety of different species in an area
What is species diversity?
200
Two processes that add carbon dioxide to the atmopshere
What are combustion and cellular respiration?
300
A group of different organisms living in the same area
What is a community?
300
What is the taiga biome?
300
The 10% rule
What is the amount of energy passed on at each trophic level?
300
Egg shells were thinning and the baby birds were not surviving
What was the effect of DDT on the bald eagles?
300
Uses carbon from the atmosphere to produce sugars
What is photosynthesis?
400
A group of different organisms interacting with the abiotic factors in same area
What is an ecosystem?
400
Biome of Apex, NC
What is deciduous forest
400
Fungi and Bacteria
What are decomposers?
400
Toxins/pollutants build up in a single organisms over time.
What is bioaccumulation?
400
The process of creating useable energy from sugars
What is cellular respiration?
500
The increase in toxins/pollutants at each trophic level of a food chain.
What is biomagnification?
500
Where fresh water and salt water mix
What is an estuary?
500
Earthworms use their mouths and digestive systems to physically eat and process dead material.
What is a detritivore?
500
a habitat with 2 different species and 2000 individuals with many different genetic differences would be described as having...
What is low species diversity and high genetic diversity?
500
The spheres involved when a fossil fuel is burned and carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere
What are the lithosphere (geosphere) and the atmosphere?