Biomes
Examples include taiga, Rainforest, and tundra.
What are terrestrial biomes?
What is a biotic factor?
The power source of the hydrologic cycle.
What is the Sun?
The rate at which solar energy is converted into organic compounds via photosynthesis over a unit of time.
What is primary productivity?
A model of an interlocking pattern of food chains that depicts the flow of energy and nutrients in two or more food chains.
What is a food web?
A vital natural resource that is found in limited supply in aquatic biomes.
What is drinking water?
One species benefits while the other is neither benefited nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
The major reservoir of the nitrogen cycle.
What is the atmosphere?
The total rate of photosynthesis in a given area.
What is gross primary productivity?
A variety of organisms occupy the same feeding position in a food pyramid.
What is a trophic level?
The single most important difference between the marine, freshwater, and estuary biomes
What is Salinity (dissolved salt)?
The unique set of resources used by a species, which includes interactions with other species.
What is (a) niche?
This biogeochemical cycle has no atmospheric component.
What is the phosphorus cycle?
The NPP if a forest has a GPP of 200 J/m2/day and 100 J/m2/day worth of carbon dioxide flow out of that forest.
What is 100 J/m2/day
The scientific law that is demonstrated in biogeochemical cycles, food chains, food webs, etc.
What is the Law of Conservation of Matter or Energy?
The factors that characterize terrestrial biomes.
What are annual temperature and precipitation?
What is a keystone species?
The two carbon cycle processes that exchange carbon in living things.
What are photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
The rate of energy storage by photosynthesizers in a given area, after subtracting the energy lost to respiration.
What is net primary productivity?
Amount of energy available to a secondary consumer, if 15,000 kcal of chemical energy is stored in organic compounds.
What is 150 kcal?
An ecosystem where water covers the soil or water is near the surface of the soil
What are wetlands?
When species use limiting resources in different ways, places, or times to reduce competition.
What is resource partitioning?
The process in which atmospheric nitrogen is converted into a form of nitrogen (primarily ammonia) that is available for uptake by plants.
What is nitrogen fixation?
The 3 factors that impact net primary productivity.
What are water availability, temperature, and nutrient availability?
An ecological event that involves changes to the structure of an ecosystem resulting from changes in animals or plants.
What is a trophic cascade?