Community Life
Animal Interactions
Nutrition
Biomes
MISC
100
An organism's role in the community.
What is a niche?
100
All the interacting populations in a given area.
What is a community?
100
These can make their own food from inorganic compounds and a usable energy source.
What are autotrophs/producers?
100
This biome provides most of the earth's food nutrients.
What is marine?
100
The amount of moisture is an example of this type of factor.
What is abiotic?
200
A description of the biodiversity in a very stable ecosystem.
What is high biodiversity?
200
The idea that if two different species compete for the exact same food source or reproductive sites, one species will be eliminated.
What is the Competitive Exclusion Principle?
200
They are organisms that use chemicals to produce food.
What are chemoautotrophs?
200
The second layer down from the top of a forest biome.
What is the canopy?
200
What food chains and food webs describe.
What is the pathways of energy through organisms?
300
These organisms modify their environment, establishing conditions under which more advanced organisms can live.
What are pioneer organisms?
300
The dashed line.
What is carrying capacity?
300
They consume both plants and meat.
What are omnivores?
300
This biome occurs between approximately 25° and 50° latitude.
What is temperate forest?
300
This type (level) of consumer feeds on a carnivore.
What is tertiary?
400
The type of community that is self sustaining with some dominant plant species.
What is a climax community?
400
The three types of symbiosis.
What are mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism?
400
The amount of energy gained by a cat from eating a mouse, if there were 1000 calories in the grass the mouse ate.
What is 10 calories?
400
The biome dominated by spruce/fir trees.
What is taiga?
400
In general, the carrying capacity of an ecosystem is limited by these types of resources.
What are biotic and abiotic resources?
500
Three possible causes leading to secondary succession.
What are fire, flood, deforestation, tornado, hurricane, harvesting, or drought.
500
The type of symbiosis represented by orchids on tropical trees.
What is commensalism?
500
It describes direct and indirect changes in an ecosystem due to the addition or removal a predator.
What is a trophic cascade?
500
Three characteristics of a savannah?
Warm, hot climates
Major vegetation is grass
Dry and rainy seasons
Seasonal fires
500
The four major processes involved in the water cycle.
What are transpiration, evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?