Terrestrial Biome
Biome where soil is permanently frozen and does not allow for the growth of large plants
What is tundra?
Respiration removes this gas from the atmosphere
What is oxygen?
This is the final community during ecological succession
What is the climax community?
This biome includes oceans, coral reefs, and estuaries
What is the marine biome?
Ecological term for an organism that eats producers
What is primary consumer?
This biome is an area that gets very little rain and experiences very hot days and cold nights
What is the desert?
This cycle's chemical is found in rocks and released through weathering
What is phosphorus?
a) Relationship where all organisms benefit
AND b) an example of that symbiosis
What is mutualism?
What is bacteria in the root nodules of legume plants?
Releasing CO2 in large quantities into the atmosphere is attributed to causing this effect
What is greenhouse?
What is carrying capacity?
This biome is dominated with tree species that shed their leaves in winter months
What is temperate deciduous forest?
This cycle uses percolation and surface flow
What is the water cycle?
Type of interaction when one organism eats its prey
What is predation?
The process that plants use to remove carbon from the atmosphere
What is photosynthesis?
These 3 soil bacteria have a role in the nitrogen cycle
What are denitrifying bacteria, nitrifying bacteria and nitrogen-fixing bacteria?
This biome is usually located near the equator. Its characteristics include high rainfall amounts, dense vegetation, and poor soil quality.
What is tropical rain forest?
The gas in this cycle is not very reactive and must be altered to be used
What is the nitrogen cycle?
Phrase describing a series of progressive changes in the species which make up a community over time
What is ecological succession?
What is transpiration?
a) Nonliving physical and chemical conditions affecting organisms AND b) 5 examples
a) What are abiotic factors?, b) What are sunlight, water, temperature, soil, wind, and natural disturbances?
This biome is an area dominated by conifer trees and short summers
What is Taiga?
Plants, algae, and phytoplankton remove this gas from the atmosphere
What is CO2 (carbon dioxide)?
When 2 populations of different species either compete for the same food source or have overlapping niches potentially causing 1 species to leave the area
What is competitive exclusion?
What is nitrogen?
Other than using a catalyst, a reaction be sped up with this
What is heat? (or increasing the temperature)