Biogeochemical Cycles
Consists of evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and transpiration
Hydrologic/Water Cycle
Lizard hunting insects
Predation
Non-living things
Ex: Water, soil, minerals
Abiotic factors
The RULE that says that when energy is passed in an ecosystem from one trophic level to the next, only ten percent of the energy will be passed on.
[dont overthink it!]
10% Rule
This cycle involves evapotranspiration
Hydrologic Cycle
Flowers and Bees
Mutualism
Groups of different species living together in a particular place with a potential for interacting with one another
Community
Interdisciplinary study that uses information and ideas from the physical sciences with those from the social sciences and humanities
Environmental Science
This cycle involves an element that can be found in sedimentary rocks, volcanic ash, aerosols, and mineral dust
Phosphorus Cycle
Orchids growing on branches
Commensalism
What can Autotrophs do that heterotrophs cannot do?
Produce their own food!
Depletion or degradation of a potentially renewable resource to which people have free and unmanaged access
Tragedy of the Commons
Nitrogen fixation
A group of living organisms of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes
Species
Living organisms will continue to live, consuming available materials, until the supply of these materials is exhausted
Law of minimum
Process that moves the fourth most abundant element between plants, animals, and microbes, as well as minerals in the earth and the atmosphere
Carbon Cycle
What types of organisms break down dead organic material. Give an example of one.
Decomposers.
Examples:
Fungi, Bacteria, Insects, Worms
Species that parasitizes its prey by laying eggs inside of them.
Parasitoid.
The process by which food is made by bacteria or other living things using chemicals as the energy source, typically in the absence of sunlight
Chemosynthesis