Unit 1
These are the two environmental factors that determine what kind of ecosystem a given area is
What are temperature and precipitation?
This is a random genetic mutation that leads to an organisms chances of survival increasing
What is an adaptation?
This is the reproductive strategy that yields several offspring with little to no parental care
What are r-strategist?
This is the body of water where rivers, streams, and lakes flow into, bringing anything the water picked up into the area.
What is a watershed?
This is the idea of consuming a product or good in a manner that leaves it replenishable and usable for future generations.
What is sustainability?
This is the kind of species interaction where one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
What is commensalism?
This is the range of factors, such as temperature, food availability, and pH, in which an organism can comfortably live and reproduce.
What is Range of Tolerance?
This is the kind of factor that affects a population regardless of how many individuals are in a given area
What are density independent factors?
This is the are of the world that, due to the suns tilt, experiences periods of weeks without seeing sunlight from December-February
What is the North Pole?
This is what happens when your soil is not porous enough, causing water to become trapped and unable to drain through the soil
What is water logging?
This is how you solve for Net Primary Productivity (NPP)
NPP= Gross Primary Productivity - Respiration Loss
This is the term used to describe an environmental disturbance that kills a majority of a population, regardless of their genetic make up
What is a bottleneck event?
This, represented by the letter k, indicates how many individuals of a population an ecosystem can support
What is carrying capacity?
This is the term used to describe how much sun is reflected back into the atmosphere from Earths surface
What is albedo?
The consequences of this is that trees are unable to filter the air or store carbon, and it releases more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere
What is deforestation?
This is the cycle that has no atmospheric component
What is the phosphorus cycle?
This is the process in which an ecosystem grows and develops from a previous ecosystem that was wiped out
What is secondary succession?
If there were initially 36 ferrets in an area, and in a year: 6 die, 9 were born, 2 emigrated out, and 4 immigrated in, the new population number would be this
What is 41?
This is the side of the mountain that is drier than the windward side, experiencing the Rain Shadow Effect
What is the leeward side?
These are the terms used to describe the leftover waste from mining when separated from the valuable ore or mineral
What are tailing and slag?
This is the answer to how much energy in Joules (J) a Tertiary consumer would receive if the primary producers produced 1,000,000 J of energy
What is 1000 J
What is size and distance from mainland?
This is the doubling time for a population whose growth rate is 1.8%
What is 38.9 Years?
This is the period of ENSO where you could expect drier weather in the Americas and wetter, warmer monsoons in South East Asia
What is La Nina?
This is the process of raising fish in a controlled environment in order to sell them for food
What is aquaculture?