Biomes
Food chain vs. web
Species Type
Ecology
Misc.
100
Two characteristics that help identify terrestrial biomes.
What is temperature and precipiation?
100
The amount of enegy lost as you go up trophic levels.
What is 10%?
100
The species that is not native to an area and causes harm to native species.
What is an invasive species?
100
The gradual presence of a biotic community in an area where a biotic community was not present prior.
What is primary succession?
100
Carrying capacity
What is the number of individuals that can be sustained in an are indefinitely?
200
Permafrost, cold, treeless, shrubs
What is tundra?
200
Distinguish the different trophic levels discussed in class.
What is producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers?
200
Species that serves as an early warning sign that an ecosystem is bein damaged.
What is an indicator species?
200
Primary vs. secondary succession
What is primary begins in an area with not biotic material and secondary begins with soil?
200
An age diagram showing vast population growth
What is have a wide base and a narrow top?
300
High rainfall, high temperature, lush vegetation
What is tropical rainforest?
300
The trophic level that producer would fall under
What is the first or primary?
300
Species whose role in the ecosystem is much more important than the abundance of the species.
What is a keystone species?
300
Causes of secondary succession
What is a natural disturbance (i.e. forest fire)?
300
The factors that lead to the unequal heating of the earth. (3)
What is angles of sun rays, the amount of light reflection, the amount of surface are the sun rays are distributed?
400
Confier, caribou, Europe, eastern United States
What is Taiga?
400
Autotrophic vs. heterotrophic
What is can make their own food vs. having to eat other things for energy?
400
Both speceis benefit from the relationship.
What is mutualism?
400
Formula to calculate exponential growth.
What is Nt=No e^rt
400
Density-dependent limiting factor vs. density-independent limiting factor
What is predator prey vs. natural disaster?
500
grasses, zebras, giraffes, hot temperatures
What is savanna?
500
Where does the enery go that is not transferred up trophic levels.
What is it is lost as heat?
500
When one speceis benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
500
R vs. k selected species
What is k- reproduce late, larger species, long life span; r-early reproductive age, many offspring, short life span?
500
In a population of mosquitoes, there are 5 growing at a rate of .25. How many mosquitoes will there be in 10 years?
What is 61 mosquitoes in 10 years?
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