Succession
The first plant species to invade an area where succession has started. Often small and fast growing.
What are pioneer species?
As energy moves up through trophic levels, it does this, with only this amount of energy being passed on.
What are decreases and 10%?
An example of this would be a wasp laying its eggs in a fig while also pollinating the fig.
What is mutualism?
All of the birds, worms, bacteria, squirrels, trees, grass, foxes, and shrubs in an area comprise this.
What is a community?
Water is returned to the atmosphere through these two processes.
What are transpiration and evaporation?
What is secondary succession?
All energy in an ecosystem ultimately comes from this.
What is the sun?
An example of this would be a school of fish swimming together to ensure safety in numbers.
What is cooperation?
All of the birds, worms, bacteria, squirrels, trees, grass, foxes, shrubs, soil, air, water, and sunlight in an area comprise this.
What is an ecosystem?
Carbon is removed from the atmosphere through this process.
What is photosynthesis?
A type of succession where there has been no previous growth, only bare rock.
What is primary succession?
What are autotrophs and heterotrophs?
Head lice are an example of this.
What is parasitism?
This estimation method is better suited for fast moving or clumped population.
What is mark and recapture?
All living things do this, releasing carbon into the atmosphere.
What is respiration?
This pioneer species invades areas of bare rock, for example, after volcanic activity.
What are lichen or mosses?
Most of the energy in an ecosystem is lost in this form.
What is heat?
No two species may share this in an ecosystem without one being driven to extinction.
What is a niche?
A population of slow/non-moving, randomly or evenly distributed organisms would be a good suitor for this type of population estimation.
What is random sampling?
Atmospheric nitrogen is converted into a usable form by this bacteria and this process.
What are nitrogen fixing bacteria and nitrogen fixation?
This is a stable, end result of succession in which the species in the community no longer change.
What is a climax community?
The lowest trophic level is always occupied by this group of organisms.
What are producers?
Lynx and hare are an example of this type of interaction.
What is predation?
The levels of organization from species to biosphere.
What is species, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere?
What are denitrifying bacteria and denitrification?