Food Chain and Food Web
Energy and Classifications
Ecological Tolerance
Adaptation/Evolution
Endanger/Extinction
100
Linear representations of how species in a community consume each other
What is the food chain?
100
The rate at which energy is captured and assimilated by the producers.
What is the gross primary productivity?
100
A range of conditions such as temperature, salinity, pH, or sunlight that an organism can endure before injury or death
What is ecological tolerance?
100
The way that populations and species of a organisms change over time
What is evolution?
100
Species found in only one area that are extremely vulnerable to extinction.
What are endemic species?
200
Complex representation of multiple species energy transfer.
What is the food web?
200
The amount of energy received by primary producers if the sun puts out 300,000 joules of energy.
What is 30,000 Joules?
200
The area labeled A represents this zone.
What is zone of optimum?
200
Certain genetic traits are more likely to survive and reproduce in certain conditions
What is natural selection?
200
Species that have a large effect on the types and abundance of other species in an ecosystem
What are keystone species?
300
The percent of energy received from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10%?
300
The organism classification that eats primary producers.
What are herbivores?
300
Range where organisms survive but experience some stress such as infertility, lack of growth, decreased activity
What is zone of physiological stress?
300
A trait that improves the ability of an individual organism to survive and reproduce
What is adaptation or adaptative trait?
300
During ecological succession the first step after a natural disaster is known as _____________
What is secondary succession?
400
The relationship between consumers and producers at different trophic levels in an ecosystem.
What is a food pyramid?
400
Absorb any dead material and break it down into simple nutrients or fertilizers
What are decomposers?
400
The environmental factor that is in short supply or causes the stress on the system
What are limiting factors?
400
When an ancestral species splits into two or more descendant species
What is speciation?
400
Natural disruptions can be ___________, ___________ or _____________.
What are periodic, episodic or random?
500
The order of the trophic levels from the bottom of the pyramid to the top.
What is primary producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer?
500
When energy is lost between trophic levels it is released as ______________ and _____________.
What is waste and heat from respiration?
500
The x and y axis
What is Environmental Gradient X and Abundance Y?
500
The two causes of speciation.
What are geographic isolation and reproductive isolation?
500
overpopulation of species which can lead to extinction can come from the loss of this type of interaction.
What is predator/prey?