Biomes
Levels of Organization
Vocabulary
Ecosystems
Population
100

The most diverse biome.

What is a Tropical Rainforest?

100

The part of the earth that contains all ecosystems.

What is a Biosphere?

100

A nonliving thing in an ecosystem.

What is an abiotic factor?

100

The difference between the structures of a food chain and a food web.

What is a food chain follows one straight line and a food web is a network that includes many intersecting chains?

100

Carrying capacity.

What is the maximum population size of a species that a specific environment can sustain indefinitely?

200

The biome we are in.

What is a Temperate Forest?

200

The level directly below the biome but above community.

What is an ecosystem?

200

Unlike a habitat this describes an organisms specific "job" or role within its Ecosystem, including what is eats and when its active.

What is a niche?

200

The 10% rule.

What is the percent of energy travelling from one trophic level to the next?

200

This term describes the number of individuals of a single species living in a specific unit of area volume.

What is population density?

300

A Tundra.

What is a cold biome covered in permafrost?

300

Hawk, snake, bison, prairie dog, grass, stream, rocks, and air are apart of.....

What is a Ecosystem?

300

The release of water vapor from plants into the atmosphere.

What is transpiration?

300

Biomass is measured in.

What is grams?

300

The difference between exponential growth and logistic growth.

What is exponential growth is unlimited growth vs. logistic growth which is limited growth?

400

Covering roughly 75% of Earth's surface, this is the largest of all biomes and is divided into freshwater and marine categories.

What is the aquatic biome?

400

A group of ecosystems that share similar climates and typical organisms.

What is a biome?

400

Photosynthesis and cellular respiration are the two main biological processes that drive this cycle.

What is the carbon cycle?

400
This process occurs when toxins, like mercury or DDT, become increasingly concentrated in the tissues of organisms as you move up to higher trophic levels.

What is biological magnification?

400

These type of species have few offspring but provide high parental care, usually staying near their carrying capacity.

What are k-selected species?

500

A place that is in the Chaparral biome.

What is Italy, California, Chile, Southwest Australia, Greece, or Southern France?

500

All of the levels of organization in order.

What is individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere?

500

Limiting factors that act regardless of the population in an area.

What is density-independent factors?

500

Decomposers contribute to the nutrient cycle in an ecosystem.

What is breaking down dead organic matter and waste into simple inorganic materials?

500

These types of limiting factors such as competition and disease, have an increasing impact on a population as its density rises.

What are density-dependent factors?

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