Biomes
This biome lacks trees and has permanently frozen soil.
What is tundra?
A moose breeding with another moose to produce offspring.
What is species?
This is the broadest category of classification.
What is a domain?
This is the process by which plants, algae, and some kinds of bacteria use the Sun’s light energy to chemically convert carbon into carbohydrates
What is photosynthesis?
Organisms in food chains are grouped into categories known as:
What are trophic levels?
The dominant plant in this biome is coniferous trees.
What is boreal forest?
All of the foxes in Happy Valley-Goose Bay.
What is a population?
This is the science of naming, defining, and classifying groups of organisms on the basis of shared characteristics.
What is taxonomy?
C6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2O + energy is the equation for what process.
What is cellular respiration?
_______ is a rule ecologists use when studying the energy passed from one trophic level to the next.
What is the "rule of 10"?
This is a transitional ecosystem between marine and freshwater habitats.
What is an estuary?
A community of individuals interacting with the water and sun.
What is an ecosystem?
T/F: species name is capitalized and the genus name is not.
These are also known as the matter recyclers of the biosphere.
What are decomposers?
This shows the total amount of energy that is transferred through each trophic level.
What is a pyramid of energy?
The depth to which light can penetrate the water, temperature, salinity, the amount of nutrients, and the amount of current are all abiotic factors of this category of biome.
What is aquatic biome?
A salmon, trout, and whitefish all swimming in the same pond.
What is community?
This is a system in which a two-word name is used to identify an organism.
What is binomial nomenclature?
This is the process by which certain fungi and bacteria use the energy from chemical nutrients to chemically convert carbon into carbohydrates such as sugars and starches in the absence of sunlight.
What is chemosynthesis?
________ is limited because the laws of thermodynamics limit the amount of energy that can be transferred from one trophic level to another.
What is the length of a food chain?
This zone of the marine biome is where no light reaches, the water temperature is near freezing and the pressure is immense.
What is abyssal zone?
Includes all of the areas on Earth (in the air, land, and water) that are inhabited by and that support life.
What is the biosphere?
This is the language used for binomial nomenclature to ensure it is universal among all scientists.
What is latin?
This term explains why energy can neither be created nor destroyed; energy can only be transferred or changed from one form to another.
What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?
In a food chain with 4 trophic levels, how much energy reaches the 4th trophic level if the producers start with 750 000 J of energy.