Relationships among organisms
What eats a primary consumer?
A secondary consumer.
What is it called when water evaporates from an area of land?
Transpiration.
What is exponential growth?
A rapid increase in population size.
Is wind energy a renewable or nonrenewable resource?
Renewable resource.
Does water have different properties than air?
Yes.
They break down dead organisms and take the nutrients from it.
What happens after water turns into water vapor? (Next two steps afterwards)
It condenses into clouds and falls back down as precipitation.
Is a pioneer species related to primary or secondary succession?
Primary succession.
What is deforestation?
Burning of environments.
True or false- water does not absorb light if it is clear.
False.
If a frog travels on a turtle's back across a river, what type of symbiotic relationships is portrayed? (The frog benefits and the turtle is unaffected.)
Commensalism.
What is made after autotrophs take CO2 for photosynthesis?
Energy-rich molecules.
What is a pioneer species?
The first species to live and create a life in a previously uninhabited area, during primary succession.
What can a loss of biodiversity in an ecosystem lead to?
It can lead to ecosystem instability.
What are three factors that impact organisms?
Water depth
Access to light
Temperature
Topography
Proximity to land
Amount of dissolved nutrients
If a producer has 500,000 Jules of energy what would a secondary consumer have?
5,000 Jules.
What do heterotrophs use carbon molecules for?
Growth and energy.
Which are examples of density dependent limiting factors from this list?
Food, tornado, mudslide, shelter.
Food and shelter (availability).
What is one benefit of biodiversity?
Medicine or technological advancement.
What kind of property differences do water and air have?
Physical and chemical.
What is the difference between a habitat and a niche?
A habitat is where an organism lives and a niche is how an organism lives or its role in the ecosystem.
List all the things that the carbon cycle is part of.
All organic compounds-carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids.
What is the difference between density-dependent and density-independent limiting factors?
Density-dependent factors are based on the number of organisms in a population, whereas density-independent factors have nothing to do with carrying capacity.
What are three examples of air pollution?
Carbon Monoxide.
Lead.
Nitrogen Oxides.
Ozone.
Particulate Matter.
Sulfur Dioxide.
What was the example of a clear body of water?
A pond.