Energy Flow in Ecosystems
Cycles of Matter
Biogeography
Earth's Biomes
Succession
100
What is a habitat?
What is the place where an organism lives and that provides the things the organism needs
100
What are some types of precipitation?
What is rain, snow, sleet, and hail
100
What is a species that have naturally evolved in an area?
What is native species
100
What two factors determine a biome?
What is temperature and rainfall
100
What are some types of natural disasters that occur?
What is fires, floods, volcanoes, or hurricanes
200
What is a producer?
What is an organism that can make its own food
200
What are the three steps in the water cycle?
What is evaporation, condensation, and precipitation
200
What is an organism carried into a new location by people called?
What is exotic species
200
Which biome has the least amount of rainfall?
What is a desert
200
A series of changes that occur in an area where no ecosystem previously existed
What is primary succession
300
What does energy enter most ecosystems as?
What is sunlight
300
Water is recycled through what?
What is the water cycle
300
What is the typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time is called what?
What is climate
300
What biome has the coldest temperatures?
What is tundra
300
What is a series of changes that occur after a disturbance in an existing ecosystem?
What is secondary succession
400
What is the order of ecological organizations?
What is organism, population, community, and ecosystem
400
The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form of nitrogen is called what?
What is nitrogen fixation
400
What can dispersal caused by?
What is wind, water, living things
400
Which biome gets the most amount of rainfall?
What is tropical rain forest
400
What is secondary succession?
What is the series of changes that occur after a disturbance in an existing ecosystem
500
What are two types of decompositions?
What is bacteria and fungi
500
What is the relationship between the bacteria and the legumes?
What is mutualism
500
What are the three factors that limit dispersal of a species?
What is physical barriers, competition, and climate
500
What are the four zones?
What is intertidal, nertic, surface, deep zones
500
What are pioneer species?
What is the first species to populate the area
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