Earth's Spheres
The sphere that contains all the living biota and where respiration and photosynthesis take place.
What is the biosphere?
Examples of Macronutrients are:
What are N (Nitrogen), P (Phosphorous), and K (Potassium)
The decline of quality of habitat or decline of species when no single entity manage a common resource.
What is tragedy of the commons?
Commensalism, Mutualism, and Parasitism are all types of what:
What is symbiosis?
Type of venation that is your typical leaf; contains a midrib and lateral veins.
What is pinnate venation?
The type of eruption that is a huge column of gas, ash, tephra and looks like a mushroom cloud.
What is a Plinian eruption?
Percipitation can either do two main things when falling to earth.
What are infiltration and runoff?
When ice or snow turns into water vapor (skipping the liquid phase of water).
What is sublimation?
Term for the maximum number of individuals of a species that can be sustained by an environment.
What is carrying capacity?
Hardy, adaptive species that initiate ecological succession by breaking down rock, creating soil, or providing nutrients.
What are pioneering species?
When leaves are arranged on a leaflet and the petiole is a rachis.
What is compound leaf arrangement?
The Indonesian word for mudflow.
What is a lahar?
A flux that involves plants releasing gases from leaf pores into the atmosphere is:
What is evapotranspiration?
On a pH scale each number increases/decreases exponentially. What type of scale is this?
What is a logrithic scale?
This type of adapted species has high fecundity & mortality, needs little parental care, and tends to have higher bust/boom cycles.
What are R-adapted species?
General term for how life returns after disturbance, usually with a a chronological order of species types over time.
What is succession?
Plants (gymnosperms, angiosperms, and Pteridophytes) that contain vessels are called:
What are tracheophytes?
Margins with no serrated edges are called:
What are entire margins?
Atmosphere layer where the geocorona exist (halo of light).
What is the exosphere?
How much energy is needed to raise/lower the temperature of 1 gram of a substance by 1 degree Celsius
What is specific heat?
The evaluation of positive and negative impacts of a proposed environmental action, including alternative actions that could be taken.
What is an (EIS) Environmental Impact Statement?
Avalanches of tephra, hot ash, and gas ejected from a volcano is called a:
What is a Pyroclastic flow?
Both of these forestry tools measure percent cover.
What is a densitometer and quadrat?
Individuals are spread out in the environment irregularly with no discernible pattern.
What is random distribution?
The phenomenon that happens when sides of a molecule becomes slightly positive and slightly negative.
What is polarity?
Processes the environment does for free like filtering water, plants providing oxygen through photosynthesis, crops getting pollinated.....
What are ecosystem services?
The type of curve that happens when species reach carrying capacity from resistance factors.
What is an S-curve?
What is Secondary Succession?
Plants having "Two generations"- sporophyte and gametophyte generations is called:
What is Alternate Generations?
These types of (abiotic) factors like natural disasters and climate will affect species no matter the population size.
What are density-independent factors?
This region of the atmosphere where there is a sea of charged particles (ions) and these particles also reflect radio waves.
What is the Ionosphere?
Water surface tension is caused by what type of chemical bond?
What is hydrogen bonding?
The kind of growth that happens when population increases and growth rate decreases.
What is logistic growth?
These two areas at MSH went through Primary succession.
What are the Pumice Plain (Pyroclastic Flow Zone) and the Debris Avalanche zone?
The zone where the petiole falls from the stem in autumn.
What is the abcission zone?
Animals with high biotic potential will typically experience what type of growth in an ecosystem?
What is exponential growth?