Biomes
Ecosystem
Community
Population
Species
100
Consists of all life on Earth and all parts of the Earth in which life exists (including land, water, and atmosphere).
What is the biosphere?
100
A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten is called what?
What is a food chain?
100
Organisms occupy different places in part because each species has a range of conditions under which it can grow and reproduce.
What is a niche?
100
A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area that can interbreed?
What is a population?
100
A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce offspring.
What is a species?
200
Name at least 3 biomes that start with the letter "T"?
What is Taiga, Tundra, and Tropical Rainforest?
200
Give an example of a food chain in New Jersey.
e.x. What is grass to bunny to fox to cyote?
(Answersrs may vary)
200
If removed, dramatic changes in the structure of a community; a species on which other species largely depend on?
What is a keystone species?
200
Name the 3 cycles.
What is water cycle, carbon cycle, phosphorus, and nitrogen cycle?
200
What type of symbiotic relationship is this?
What is mutualism?
300
The biological influences on organisms.
The physical components of an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
What are abiotic factors?
300
Rule is that each trophic level is 10% of the total energy starting from the primary producers at 100% and the tertiary consumers at 0.1%?
What is 10% rule; What is ecological pyramids?
300
The first species to colonize in barren areas?
What are pioneer species?
300
1. When a population grows because of species moving in.
2. When a population decreases because a species moves out.
What is emigration and immigration?
300
Name the 5 isolation factors.
What are ecological, geographic, behavioral, temporal, and reproductive?
400
Name the 6 types of consumers.
What is carnivores, omnivores, herbivores, scavengers, decomposers, and detritivores?
400
Ecologists call this network of "feeding interactions".
What is a food web?
400
1. Begins in an area with no remnants of an older community; starting of a new ecosystem.
2. Is a faster process because the soil survives a major disturbance.
What is primary and secondary succession?
400
The larger the population gets, the faster it grows under ideal conditions and unlimited resources.
What is exponential growth?
400
What is the apex predator of New Jersey?
What is coyote/wolf?
500
What biome consists of blue herons, crocodiles, sea lions, and stops flooding?
What is Mangroves?
500
All the organisms that live in a place together with their physical environment.
What is an ecosystem?
500
Name the 4 symbioses.
What is commensalism, predation, parasitism and mutualism?
500
The largest animal population in the world?
What are krill?
500
What population is this? (Hint: They can go underwater for long periods of time)
What is a cormorant?