Ecology Definitions / Phenomena
Resilience and Biodiversity
Climate Change
Photosynthesis
Plant Structures
Anything from the semester!
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Nonliving and living factors together.
What is an ecosystem?
1
Lichen and moss are the first organisms of this succession.
What is primary succession?
1
An example of a Carbon Sink.
What are Fossil Fuels, plants, soil or the Ocean?
1
More of this gas would lead to more photosynthesis.
What is CO2?
1
Where photosynthesis takes place in plants.
What is the chloroplast?
1
The study of life.
What is biology?
2
At around 2000 organisms, this species reaches its
What is carrying capacity?
2
The ecosystem that is more resilient.
What is the high biodiversity ecosystem?
2
An example of a Carbon Source.
What is pollution, combustion or respiration?
2
The reactants of photosynthesis.
What are CO2 and H2O?
2
The function of guard cells.
What is opening and closing stomata?
2
The type of energy turned into glucose in Photosynthesis.
What is light energy?
3
Where a species is around but is struggling.
What is stressed zone?
3
When two different species compete.
What is interspecific competition?
3
Solar, wind and nuclear energy.
What are solutions to pollution?
3
The products of photosynthesis.
What are Glucose and Oxygen?
3
This structure allows for gas exchange.
What is the stoma or stomata?
3
A negative of excessive greenhouse gases.
What is global warming, melting ice caps, sea levels rising, or climate change overall?
4
When a keystone species is removed, the effects it has on the rest of an ecosystem.
What is a trophic cascade?
4
When a seaside ecosystem recovers from a hurricane.
What is secondary succession?
4
Greenhouse gases interact with this type of radiation.
What is infrared?
4
The purpose of photosynthesis.
What is storing energy as sugar?
4
The gasses that enter and leave a plant's Stomata.
What are Carbon Dioxide, Oxygen and Water Vapor?
4
Each element of HIPCO.
What are Habitat Loss, Invasive Species, Pollution, Climate Change and Overharvesting?
5
When one species receives a benefit and the other is neither harmed or helped.
What is commensalism?
5
In community 1, the Species Evenness of the Blue stars.
1 2
What is 20%?
5
One positive of the natural greenhouse effect.
What is allowing for life, protecting from objects or protecting from UV radiation?
5
The elements found in Glucose.
What are Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen?
5
The molecule that makes plants look green and allows for light to be absorbed.
What is chlorophyll?
5
A trophic cascade example from class.
What are otters indirectly helping help, or foxes harming plant growth, or bass helping reduce carbon?