All the individuals of a species living in the same area at the same time
What is a population?
100
Biodiversity is _____________
The variety of life
100
What is the water cycle?
the movement of water throughout an ecosystem
100
Define ecosystem.
An ecosystem is all the organisms in an environment plus the abiotic factors
200
eats only dead decaying matter
What is a decomposer?
200
lowers the population
What is emigration and death
200
Name 3 things that we rely on biodiversity for
Clean water
Food
Clothes
Shelter
Medicine
Aesthetic
Ideas
200
What is the carbon cycle?
the movement of a molecule of carbon through an ecosystem
200
A species that is non-native and destroys the native wild life
What is an invasive species?
300
What is predation?
Interaction where one animal eats another animal
300
growth curve that does not level off but continues to go straight up like a "J"
What is a j curve/exponential growth
300
Name three ways biodiversity is threatened
Habitat Destruction
Invasive Species
Pollution
Climate Change
Exploitation
300
What is photosynthesis?
the process of turning carbon dioxide into sugar and water into oxygen
300
The Natural, gradual changes in the types of species that live in an area; can be primary or secondary. The gradual replacement of one plant community by another through natural processes over time
What is ecological succession?
400
the amount of energy passed between each level in an ecosystem
What is 10%?
400
regulation of populations. These "Factors" can be biotic or abiotic
What are limiting factors?
400
Three components of biodiversity
What are the diversity of genes, diversity of species, and diversity of ecosystems?
400
What is evaporation?
The transformation of water into a gas
400
What is a Climax community?
A stable group of plants and animals that is the end result of the succession process
500
the top level of the food chain (the 4th level)
What is a tertiary consumer?
500
The maximum population size that environment can support with no break down of habitat. (Double points for identifying what letter represents this vocabulary term)
What is the carrying capacity (k)?
500
An area that contains many species of plants and has lost 70% of the original habitat
What is a biodiversity hotspot?
500
What is respiration? (extra points for including the chemicals involved in the reaction.)
The release of carbon through breathing in plants and animals
500
What two creatures make up a lichen?
the symbiotic relationship of a fungus and algae.
Usually the first pioneer species.