Energy Use
The rate at which plants produce sugars from the sun?
What is Primary Productivity?
What is the order from SMALLEST to BIGGEST for:
biome, community, ecosystem, population, biosphere
What is:
Population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere
When succession occurs in areas where previous growth has occurred is known as what?
What is secondary succession?
A tapeworm infection among humans would be considered to be an example of what?
What is parasitism?
What is known as the population size that an environment can sustain?
What is carrying capacity?
There are 10,000 calories/m2 found in the producer level. How many calories may be found in the first level consumers?
What is 1,000 calories/m2?
****Remember the 10% law****
Part of the biosphere that has a specific climate and community is known as ______?
What is a biome?
This in an example of what succession?
exposed rock ->mosses ->grasses ->herbivores
What is primary succession?
The role that an organism plays within its ecosystem would be best described as?
What is a niche?
As resources become depleted, the growth of a population slows or stops forming a S-shaped curve where the population size is capped at the carrying capacity is know as what type of population growth?
What is logistic growth?
What would most likely happen if grasses and shrubs were removed from rural New England ecosystem?
What is a decrease in energy produced by the ecosystem?
What is the place where an organism or population lives?
What is a HABITAT?
Fish in a lake can build a nest in the sand where bass and bluegill are thriving. Ecologists see that a layer of humus slowly covered the pond and the population of bass & bluegill are declining while the fish who make nest in the sand are increasing. Ecologist can conclude what event is taking place?
What is succession?
The potential resources and area that an organism can possibly use is known as what?
What is a fundamental niche?
What is the process in which plants use their roots to absorb nitrogen in the soil?
What is assimilation?
What would explain a large increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration since about 1800?
What is the use of fossil fuels by humans?
What are the many different species that live together within an ecosystem?
What is a community?
What is the study of the interaction of organisms with each other and their environment?
Remora sharks have an adhesive disk on the dorsal surface of their heads. They tend to hitch a ride on larger animals who can be sloppy eaters. When food floats away they can unhitch itself and collect scraps of the floating food. This would best fit which symbiotic relationship?
What is commensalism?
One way that water is returned to the atmosphere during the water cycle is through a process known as?
(Hint there are 2 terms)
What is the path of energy flow through the trophic levels?
What is the food chain?
What is a community plus abiotic factors?
What is an ecosystem?
What is the number of species living in an ecosystem?
What is a biodiversity?
Termites chew & ingest wood, but are incapable to digest cellulose into sugars relying on intestinal flagellates to provide nutrition for them. These particular flagellates are ONLY found inside the gut of termites. This example of the termites and flagellate best fits which symbiotic relationship?
What is mutualism?
What is the dry weight of organic matter?
What is biomass?