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Organism Interactions
Nutrient Cycles
Grab bag
100
Study of how organisms interact with each other and the environment....
What is "Ecology"
100
"feeding level"
What is "trophic level"
100
Which trophic level has the MOST energy?
What is "the first level, or the producers"
100
Most of the evaporation taking place around the world is from water in the __________
What is "oceans"
100
When organisms reach a stable population size which remains steady for some time, this is called the ___________
What is "carrying capacity"
200
All living things in an area....
What is "community"
200
AUTOTROPHIC organism that captures sunlight and converts it into energy
What is "producer"
200
All the whitetail deer living in Indiana would be an example of a ____________
What is "population"
200
Why are bacteria so important to the Nitrogen cycle?
What is "they are the only organisms which can use atmospheric nitrogen"
200
A growth curve which looks like a J and just continues to grow is called..........
What is "exponential growth"
300
An organism that only eats plants
What is "herbivore"
300
diagram shows COMPLEX FEEDING RELATIONSHIPS between organisms as a series of interrelated food chains
What is "food web"
300
All of the plants and animals living together in a certain area make up a ______________
What is "community"
300
The loss of water through leaves is known as
What is "transpiration"
300
Invasive species can do so much damage to an environment because they have no natural _________ in their new environment
What is "predators"
400
A group of the same species that occupies a given area
What is "population"
400
diagram that represents the amount of ENERGY available at each feeding level within an ecosystem
What is "food pyramid"
400
All the energy in any ecosystem ultimately comes from this.
What is "the sun"
400
In the carbon cycle, what two processes are the exact opposite chemical reactions of each other?
What is "photosynthesis and cellular respiration"
400
The nutrient cycle we studied which is being most impacted by modern man and the burning of fossil fuels
What is "carbon cycle"
500
organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring
What is "species"
500
organism in a food web that EFFECTS MANY OTHER SPECIES and if removed from the ecosystem may result in the ecosystem collapsing
What is "keystone species"
500
Honeybees and flowers are an example of what type of symbiotic relationship?
What is "mutualism"
500
Contrast how energy moves through and ecosystem versus how nutrients move through an ecosystem....
What is "energy flow is one way, nutrients are recycled"
500
A consumer which only eats other animals
What is "carnivore"
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