Ecosystem Types
This term refers to animals raised by humans for food, fiber, work, or other products.
What is Livestock?
This cyle continuously moves water.
What is the hydrologic cycle?
This plant/animal creates its own food
What is a producer
Ecological succession will start with lichens
What is Primary Succession
The EPA stands for
What is the Environmental Protection Agency
This ecosystem is primarily saltwater
What is Marine?
This is conducted through movement of biogeochemical processes
What is energy flow.
This animal/plant will scavenge for anything it can find (mostly dead things)
What is a detritivore
This succession happens on fertile, open soil
What is secondary succession
What is the EPA
this ecosytem has a variation called the boreal (or taiga)
What is forest?
This continuously recycles sulfur
What is the sulfur cycle
This consumer gets eaten by apex predators
This succession will occur when fire, flood, or artificial means destroy the ecosystem
What is Secondary succession
The most important component of agricultural production
What is soil
This ecosystem is local to this area.
What is Grassland?
energy flow is also conducted through ___
What is a food web
This consumer will eat plants
What is a primary consumer
This process is the definition of both primary and secondary succession
What is ecological succession
This agency protects all wildlife
What is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
This ecosystem has loggerhead turtles and fiddler crabs.
What is Aquatic?
The continuous movement of P
What is the phosphorus cycle?
This consumer has no natural enemies
What is an apex predator
This succession can be sped up by human activity and natural disasters
What are all types of ecological succession?
This agency protects fisheries
What is NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)