Ecology
Production of glucose and oxygen from carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
Movement of carbon through the living and non living world.
What is the Carbon Cycle?
A tick on a dog.
What is parasitism?
process that uses chemical energy to produce carbohydrates DAILY DOUBLE
What is chemosynthesis?
1250 kcals to 125 kcals
What is the 10% energy transfer rule?
First organisms established in a new ecosystem.
What are pioneer species?
Process of removing carbon from the atmosphere into organisms.
What is a photosynthesis?
both species benefit
one benefits one is harmed
one benefits benefits one is not affected
What is mutualism and parasitism?
What are volcanic eruptions, natural disasters?
What is nitrogen fixation?
Succession with new soil previously uninhabited.
What is primary succession?
Breaks down dead matter.
What is the function of decomposers?
Organisms utilizing the same resource such as food, space, mates, water.
What is competition?
plant eaters
What are herbivores?
An ecosystem recovering from a natural disaster.
What is secondary succession?
List 2 consequences of human impacts on ecosystems.
What is deforestation, climate change, pollution/smog, carbon emission, acid rain?