Ecological Organization and Biomes
Trophic Levels
Organism Interactions and Populations
Biogeochemical Cycles
Succession and Threats to Biodiversity
100
The study of ecosystems
What is ecology?
100
Always make up the first trophic level in a food web
What are producers?
100
The largest population that can be supported in an area without harming the environment
What is carrying capacity?
100
The two natural processes that affect the carbon-oxygen cycle
What are photosynthesis and cellular respiration
100
The replacement of community ecosystems over time
What is succession?
200
Air; heat; precipitation; sunlight
What are abiotic factors?
200
The amount of energy transferred to the next trophic level
What is 10%?
200
One member of the association benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
What is commensalism?
200
Changing of gas to a liquid (water vapor to water) and is crucial for the formation of clouds
What is condensation?
200
Occurs when an established community is disturbed/destroyed and is then replaced
What is secondary succession?
300
Areas of standing water that support aquatic plants; highest species diversity like amphibians, reptiles, and birds
What is the Wetlands?
300
Producer; primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer
What are trophic levels?
300
The letter an exponential growth curve refers to
What is the letter "J"?
300
When water soaks into the ground and fills the spaces between rocks and sand
What is precolation?
300
_________ species are the first to colonize an area.
What are pioneer species?
400
Find the missing level of organization: organism-_______-community-ecosystem-biome-biosphere
What is a population?
400
A heterotroph that eats both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
400
Physical, biological, or chemical factors that affect growth and diversity or organisms within an ecosystem
What are limiting factors?
400
An organism that helps return nitrogen back into the atmosphere
What is denitrifying bacteria?
400
Global warming and an ozone hole are examples of __________ and _________ _________.
What are atmospheric and climate changes?
500
Aquatic and Terrestrial
What are the two types of biomes?
500
The source of energy in a food web
What is the Sun?
500
Birth rate, death rate, immigation, emigration
What are growth factors?
500
These are found in an organism, and require nitrogen to help the organism survive
What are nucleic acids and amino acids?
500
The cooling of lava, which forms rock or the receding of a glacier, which exposes bare rock for the first time
What are examples of primary succession?
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