What goes around comes around
The power that drives all things and is constantly cycled around the whole biosphere.
What is energy?
In an energy pyramid, why are producers and decomposers found in the lowest, largest level?
Do they capture all of the energy available for the ecosystem?
Forest fires, hurricanes, and oil spills are examples of what?
What are disturbances?
All organisms have these two goals when competing with others.
What does it mean to
- get fat (be strong / healthy)
- make babies (reproduce)
The three domains of living things are
What are bacteria, archaea, and eukarya?
How much energy is converted to heat at each transfer in a food chain?
What is 90%?
Why are bees and flowers an example of mutualism?
Do bees need flowers for nectar and flowers need bees to pollinate them?
After a tornado rips out trees and displaces animals, a forest ecosystem will undergo what process to recover?
The relationship between a predator and prey is an example of interspecies what?
What is interspecies competition?
What is the most specific name for an organism?
What is its species name?
One consequence of replacing a forest with farmland is ...
What is the loss of biodiversity?
A plant could be both an autotroph and a heterotroph if it does what?
What is photosynthesis and consuming other organisms?
When a new volcanic island forms, it must experience primary succession to support any life. What is the first step in this process?
How do lichens and mosses start growing on the rocks?
Two reasons individuals of the same species would compete are for ...
What are resources (food, water, space etc) and mates?
what is binomial nomenclature?
In Clear Lake, what type of substance was introduced that never actually left the ecosystem?
What is DDD?
What is a pesticide?
What type of relationship exists between bison and birds on the ground who eat the bugs stirred up by the bison?
What is commensalism?
Why is a climax community the most stable version of a community during succession?
What is increased biodiversity and energy / nutrient cycling?
Why would it be bad for a parasite to kill its host quickly?
How will it get energy from a dead host?
Wouldn't it stop getting energy if the host died?
To be considered "alive", what must a species be able to do? (5 things)
What are:
- get energy, grow, eliminate waste
- reproduce
- respond to the environment
What is an example of a living thing contributing to the quality of abiotic factors in its ecosystem?
Is it...?
- filtering organisms keeping water clean
- animal waste fertilizing soil
- decomposers creating soil
- plants turning CO2 into O2 & vice versa for animals
What type of relationship exists between humans and pets?
What is mutualism?
Why are natural disturbances easier for a community to recover from compared to human-made disturbances?
Why are:
- natural resources are still in place?
- there are fewer pollutants?
When two members of the same population compete for mates and the stronger individual wins, what is the result for the offspring and the population overall?
Will the offspring and future generations be stronger?
Why is it important for scientists to use Genus species naming for organisms they are researching?
Will other scientists understand what is being studied and be able to apply it to their own work?