Biomes
Food Webs
Symbiotic Relationships
Population Dynamics
Endangered and Invasive Species
100
This biome is known for its year-round warm temperatures, high rainfall, and the greatest biodiversity on Earth.
What is the tropical rainforest?
100
This type of organism gets its energy by eating plants or other animals.
What is a consumer or heterotroph?
100
Cordyceps fungi invade an insect and control its mind before sprouting fruiting spore bodies from the insect to reproduce. What symbiotic relationship is this?
What is parisitism?
100
This type of population growth occurs when resources are limited.
What is carrying capacity?
100
An invasive species reproduces slowly or quickly?
What is quickly?
200
This cold biome features permafrost and low-growing vegetation such as mosses and lichens.
What is the tundra?
200
These organisms break down dead matter and return nutrients to the environment.
What is a decomposer?
200
Clownfish living among sea anemone tentacles gain protection, while the anemone gains nothing. This is an example of what kind of symbiosis?
What is commensalism?
200
Increased competition for food is an example of a (denity dependent or density independent) limiting factor.
What is a density dependent limiting factor?
200
What are two of the most common reasons species become endangered?
What is habitat loss and invasive species?
300
This biome has the largest temperature range between day and night and includes organisms adapted to conserve water.
What is the desert?
300
Only about this percent of energy is lost from one trophic level to the next.
What is 90%?
300
In lichen, a fungus provides structure and protection, while algae provide food through photosynthesis. This is an example of what?
What is mutualism?
300
What is the carrying capacity of this species?
What is 100?
300
In their new environments, invasive species have _______ limiting factors.
What is few/little/no limiting factors?
400
This biome is the largest biome on Earth.
What is the taiga / boreal forest?
400
If primary producers contain 500,000 kcal, how many will be available for tertiary consumers?
What is 500 kcal?
400
Which of these is a mutualistic relationship: a) a tapeworm in a human intestine, b) bacteria in a cow’s stomach that help digest cellulose, or c) barnacles on a whale?
What is b) bacteria in a cow’s stomach that help digest cellulose?
400
This limiting factor might affect the amount of water in an area.
What is weather/rain?
400
Monarch butterflies are slowly declining in population. This makes them _________________.
What is endangered?
500
Based on the temperature, is this area located in the northern or southern hemisphere? (AKA below, or above the equator?)
What is the southern hemisphere?
500
How much energy is conserved between each trophic level?
What is 10%?
500
What is the difference between parasitism and predation?
What is predation involves killing another organism, where as parisitism involves living off another organism?
500
This is an example of what type of feedback loop? Positive or Negative?
What is a negative feedback loop?
500
Name one method of conserving wildlife beyond stopping them from being killed, hunted, or overfished?
What is habitat preservation or captive breeding? / other varying answers