Levels
Group of the same species living in the same ecosystem.
What is Population?
The living factors of an ecosystem.
A network of alike ecosystems.
What is Biome?
This refers to an ecosystem's ability to respond and adapt to stressors in a way that it maintains its components.
What is Resilience?
The most biodiverse biome.
What is Tropical Rainforest?
Biological community of abiotic and biotic factors that interact with one another.
What is Ecosystem?
The Gulf of Mexico is constantly receiving input from its surroundings in the form of runoff, feeding channels, and sunlight. This is an example of a(n) ___________ system.
What is Open System?
Initial development of a new ecosystem.
What is Primary Succession?
Northern, artic regions with harsh winters and very little biodiversity and vegetation.
What is Tundra?
All the different populations in an ecosystem.
What is Community?
An system that does not receive any outside inputs nor release any output to its surroundings.
What is a Closed System?
These are the three things that influence a Biome.
What is Climate, Flora, and Fauna?
Predictable, patterned ecosystem disruptions that occur once every decade.
What is Long-Term Cyclic Fluctuation?
What is Desert biome?
Part of Earth where all life exists.
What is Biosphere?
The role and position of a species in its ecosystem.
What is Ecological Niche?
This is the first species to settle in a new habitat during primary succession.
What is Pioneer Species?
When an ecosystem begins to re-develop after a natural disaster and biodiversity is restored.
What is Secondary Succession?
Coniferous forest in sub-artic regions.
What is Taiga?
What is Species?
The Gulf of Mexico has reached a state where Nitrogen input and Nitrogen output are occurring at equal rates. This helps stabilize the aquatic ecosystem. This is what this state is referred to as.
What is Ecosystem Equilibrium?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: This is how wolf populations helped beaver populations after their re-introduction into Yellowstone in 1995.
What is wolves helped regulate elk populations through predator-prey interactions. Elk feed on willows and other vegetation along waterways. Beavers use this vegetation for building supplies. Lowering elk population allowed this vegetation to resurge, providing beavers with more resources.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: This is how lodgepole pines showed resilience amidst the Yellowstone forest fire outbreak in 1988?
What is they were coniferous pines that's cones only released seeds when exposed to extreme temperatures.
Forest with changing seasons, nutrient rich soil, and 4 - 6 month growing periods.
What is Temperate Deciduous Forest?