Species Interaction
Biomes
Nutrient cycles
Food Webs
Miscellaneous
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What is Parasitism?
100
A biome that has a distinct rainy and dry season and tall grasses.
What is a Savannah?
100
The energy source that drives the hydrological cycle.
What is the SUN?
100
The herbivores in the second tropic level.
What is Primary Consumers ?
100
The non-living factors in an ecosystem.
What is Abiotic?
200
2 species who benefit from each other.
What is Mutualism?
200
Rivers and Lakes are a ______________ Biome.
What is a Freshwater Biome?
200
An anthropogenic way that CO2 goes into the atmosphere.
What is Burning of Fossil Fuels?
200
If there is 4000 kJ/m2 available at the producer level, how much would be available at the secondary consumer level?
What is 40 kJ/m2?
200
What happens to the water when there is excess nutrients.
What is eutrophication, algal bloom or hypoxia?
300
When one animal hunts down and consumes another.
What is predator-prey?
300
2 biomes that have a lot of trees, but poor soils.
What are the Taiga and Tropical Rain Forest?
300
The cycle that has no gaseous component.
What is phosphorus?
300
What percentage of energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next?
What is an 10%?
300
The equation for primary productivity
What is NPP = GPP - Respiration?
400
A group of organisms of the same species that live in the same area.
What is a population?
400
A biome whose soil freezes over for part of the year, known as permafrost.
What is Tundra?
400
The nutrient cycle that has direct impact on the greenhouse effect.
What is the Carbon Cycle?
400
The organisms who feed on decaying plant matter
What is a Detrivore?
400
Using the same resource in different ways or at different times.
What is Resource Partitioning?
500
A competition that exists between members of the same species.
What is Intraspecific Competition?
500
The 2 factors that determine a terrestrial biome
What are climate and precipitation?
500
The part of the nitrogen cycle where Nitrogen form the atmosphere is taken in by bacteria.
What is Nitrogen Fixation?
500
What we call the percentage of usable energy from each trophic level to the next in a food web
What is Ecological Efficiency?
500
A ______ feedback loop causes systems to change further in the same direction
What is a positive feedback loop?