Vocabulary
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.
What are Plants/producers?
This park in Africa had significant preservation and scientific research conducted in it to stabilize it after a civil war.
What is Gorongosa National Park?
The S in CRAPSHED
What is Stimuli?
This is the driver of the water cycle
What is the sun?
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
If a food chain has grass, grass hoppers, frogs, and snakes, and the frogs are afflicted by a disease and decrease in population, this trophic level will increase in population greatly.
What are the primary consumers or 2nd trophic level (grasshoppers)?
Must have all 8 characteristics of life.
What is living, or biotic?
Humans are interrupting the carbon cycle by doing....
What is deforestation, burning fossil fuels, and adding more carbon to the atmosphere?
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
Drought, blizzards, and other weather events are an example of this type of limiting factor for populations.
What is a density-independent limiting factor?
Energy lost through homeostasis, growing, heat, etc, is not passed on to the next level.
What is the 10% rule?
Humans are a part of the water cycle during....
What is cellular respiration?
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
What is an energy pyramid?
The largest population that an environment can support, usually limited by food and space.
What is the carrying capacity?
Fire is considered this.
What is abiotic?
Humans can reduce their impact to atmospheric carbon by....
What is replant trees, use renewable energy, walk, eat less beef?
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 90%?
Wolves were considered this in Yosemite National Park.
What is a keystone species?
Once something has passed away, it is still considered this.
What is biotic?
What is the date of the quiz?