Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
100
The non-living factors in an ecosystem.
What is Abiotic?
100
The number of different species in a specific area, such as a landscape, ecological community, or region
What is species richness?
100
A mouse is an example of this type of species
R-selected
100
A plate boundary found in the ocean, where two tectonic plates move away from one another.
What is Divergent Plate Boundary?
200
Organism that feeds on other animals
What is a Carnivore?
200
When a habitat is vulnerable to collapse, this type of species is usually the first to be lost, due to their niche habitats and feeding preferences.
What are specialists?
200
This line represents the biotic potential of a species.
What is Line A?
200
The soil layer with the most root activity
what is A horizon?
300
The biome that has the highest biodiversity.
What is a tropical rainforest?
300
Something that is produced by an ecosystem and can be used by humans.
What is a provisioning service?
300
Long life span and low # of offspring are examples of this type of species
K-Selected
300
This soil texture holds water the best.
what is Clay?
400
The species in the ecosystem for on whom the ecosystem depends on.
What is a keystone species?
400
Habitats
Photosynthesis
Nutrient cycling
Soil formation
Water cycle
Genetic diversity
What are supporting services?
400
This line represents the carrying capacity of a population.
What is E?
400
This soil texture is the best for growing, and considered the most balanced.
what is Loam?
500
A biome whose soil freezes over for part of the year, known as permafrost.
What is Tundra?
500
Islands that are large and ______ tend to have the most migration from the mainland.
What is close?
500
The type of growth exhibited in this population (rapid, slow, declining, or no change).
What is rapid growth?
500
What is the most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere.
what is Nitrogen?
600
The 2 factors that determine a terrestrial biome
What are climate and precipitation?
600
An organism that can signal changes in its environment, and can be used to help assess the health of an ecosystem
What is an indicator species?
600
The stage of demographic transition where the population begins to experience rapid growth.
What is Stage 2?
600
This process circulates warm air and rain around the equator.
what are convection cells?
700
A ______ feedback loop causes systems to change further in the same direction
What is a positive feedback loop?
700
The term for human-caused disturbances.
What are anthropogenic?
700
These two factors, representing those moving into and out of a country, are not necessary when considering the world population?
What are Immigration and Emigration?
700
This process deflects wind traveling through atm. due to spin of earth.
what is the Coriolis Effect?
800
2 species who use each-other.
What is Mutualism?
800
A measure of how quickly the ecosystem can “bounce back” from the disturbance.
What is resilience?
800
The country with the slowest growth rate.
What is country Y?
800
All the land that drains into a specific body of water.
what is a Watershed?
900
Rivers and Lakes are a ______________ Biome.
What is a Freshwater Biome?
900
The first species to move into an area that is unoccupied.
What are pioneer species?
900
The growth rate of a population that has a CBR of 24/1000 and a CDR of 8/1000.
What is 1.6%?
900
Solar intensity is highest at this part of the globe.
what is the equator?
1000
The part of the nitrogen cycle where Nitrogen form the atmosphere is taken in by bacteria.
What is Nitrogen Fixation?
1000
Types of organisms that make really good invasive species (bad for the island species).
What are generalists?
1000
The phase of demographic transition that exhibits:
High birth rates, high death rates, and high infant mortality rates
What is stage 1?
1000
the term for different sides of a mountain having very different biomes
what is rain shadow?
1100
The phenomena where when given a unregulated public resource, it will be taken advantage of.
What is Tragedy of the Commons
1100
The point where biodiversity is highest for that habitat.
What is a climax community?
1100
This is the formula for doubling time
70/growth rate
1100
What affects the Earth's seasons?
what is the tilt of Earths axis changes angle?