It goes up and down
The maximum population size an environment can sustain.
What is carrying capacity?
This biome receives the highest amount of solar energy.
What is the tropical rain forest?
This is the result of gross primary productivity minus respiration.
What is net primary productivity?
This is a measure of biodiversity.
What is species richness and/or abundance?
Prevents soil erosion on a steep hillside.
What is terracing/contour farming?
The age structure diagram shape with a rapidly growing population.
What is triangle/wide base?
This biome has seasonal fluctuations in with cold temperatures and low precipitation.
What is the tundra?
What is a supporting ecosystem service?
The ideal conditions for survival when few can survive at extreme conditions.
What is ecological tolerance?
No natural predators cause an introduced species to become this.
What is an invasive species?
Doubling time of China with a growth rate of 0.49%
What is 142.9 years?
The formation of clouds.
What is condensation?
This process removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
What is photosynthesis?
Species that can adapt to many different environments.
What are generalist species?
This is the most efficient type of irrigation for water conservation.
What is drip irrigation?
No parental care and high death rate at young age.
What is a r-selected species?
Most abundant molecules in the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
An organism eats a plant and carbon enters its body in the form of sugar.
What is assimilation?
This is caused by highways cutting through natural areas.
What is habitat fragmentation?
Decreases biodiversity
What is habitat loss? Or any other part of HIPPCO
This is the growth rate of a country with a CBR of 25 and CDR of 10.
What is 1.5%
Where most weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
This biome is subject to seasonal fires and is found in Southern California and Greece.
What is chaparral?
This type of succession starts from barren rock.
What is primary succession?
Control insects without a large use of chemicals
What is IPM?