Biological Diversity
Biodiversity: A Global Issue
Energy Driven Ecosystems
Living Things Interact
What's Geography Got To Do With It
100
This word describes all the non-living components of an ecosystem
What is abiotic
100
The system of interactions between organisms and their environment.
What is an ecosystem?
100
These are the main types of primary producers
What are plants?
100
This is the role of an organism within the structure and function of an ecosystem.
What is ecological niche?
100
Weather patterns occur in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
200
Natural selection is the basic process which leads to this.
What is evolution?
200
These are process by which the natural environment provides resources useful to people.
What are ecosystem services?
200
A place where a particular population lives.
What is a habitat?
200
When the niche of two organisms overlaps, this results.
What is competition.
200
This causes air and fluids to spin in different directions in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere
What is the Coriolus effect
300
A group of individuals that are able to interbreed and produce fertile offspring under natural conditions.
What is a species?
300
This type of conservation is practiced by zoos.
What is ex-situ
300
This is the biomass created by an ecosystem once plant respiration is accounted for.
What is Net Primary Productivity?
300
A species that has a large impact on other species
What is a keystone species?
300
This is cyclical ocean current event that causes global changes in climate
What is El Nino
400
This kingdom is made up of single celled organisms that do not contain a nucleus
What is Monera?
400
This is often used to determine the source of animals traded illegally
What is DNA testing?
400
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but can be converted from one form to another is this law of Thermodynamics
What is The First Law?
400
These are three types of symbiotic relationships
What is parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism?
400
Relating to precipitation, this is the area on the leeward side of a mountain
What is the rain shadow
500
This is the Hierarcy of Classification
What is Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?
500
These are goals of wildlife management
What is Control Threats; Reserve, Protect Restore Habitats; Manage Species
500
This determines how an organism will receive its energy.
What is its Trophic Level?
500
The classification of organisms that have few offspring and care for them for a long time.
What are k strategists?
500
These are the two most important factors affecting climate.
What is temperature and precipitation
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