Levels of Organization
What are the levels of ecological organization in order from lowest to highest?
Individual, population, community, ecosystem, biome/biosphere
What are the three nutrient cycles we looked more in depth at?
Nitrogen, water, carbon cycles
What are the two types of population growth curves
Exponential and logistic
What is the simplest way to look at enery flow in an ecosystem?
Food chain
What is the most popualr crayon color according to crayola?
Blue
A group of individuals that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring is known as what?
A species
This cycle consists of the building block of life
Carbon cycle
Which type of growth curve is an S shape, goes from a slow growth, to exponential, to carrying capacity?
Logistic growth
What is always at the bottom of any food chain, food web, or trophic level?
Producer
What is the number 1 most used emoji?
😂
All members of one species in a defined area is known as?
Population
What is another name for the water cycle?
Hydrologic cycle
The number of organisms that can be supported by the resources in an ecosystem is known as
Carrying capacity
What type of consumer are carnivores that eat herbivores (organisms that eat primary consumers)
Secondary consumers
What is the most popular number in the world?
Number 7
What consists of multiple populations in a given area?
A community
What are the four steps of the carbon cycle
Photosynthesis, respiration, combustion, decomposition
The re-establishment of a damaged ecosystem in an area where the soil was left intact
Secondary Succession
A complex network of feeding relationships is known as
A food web
What is the most numerous insect in the world?
Ant
What consists of all abiotic and biotic factors in a given area?
An ecosystem
Organisms can only use nitrogen in these two forms
Ammonium and nitrates
What is the climax community of Virginia?
Deciduous oak-hickory (hardwood) forest
Put the orders of an energy pyramid in order of trophic level from energy flowing up the food chain
Producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer
Who is the most played character of all time?
Dracula