Ecosystem Basics
Amount of sunlight, amount of rain, and the temperature are all THIS type of factor
What is an abiotic factor?
The cycle that contains combustion
What is the carbon cycle?
Interaction when a tick bites a human
What is parasitism?
Type of succession that starts on bare rock
What is primary succession?
Process by which plants get energy from the sun
What is photosynthesis?
A population of insects have some who survive being sprayed by pesticide. They then have offspring who also have this trait. This process is called...
What is natural selection?
The process by which plant roots uptake nutrients
What is assimilation?
Interaction when a lion kills and eats a zebra
What is predation?
Term used for the first species to colonize an area
What is a pioneer species?
Name given to an organism that must eat their food for energy
What is a consumer or heterotroph?
Two animals are separated and start getting different adaptations to where they can no longer reproduce and make fertile offspring. This process is called...
What is speciation?
The only cycle to not have an atmospheric component
What is the phosphorous cycle?
Interaction when a bee pollinates a flower
What is mutualism?
Type of succession that happens after a disaster destroys an area but leaves soil intact
What is secondary succession?
The direction the arrow points in a food web
What is from the predator to the prey?
An organism is able to live in a very wide variety of places with different weather. This organism is said to have a high what?
What is range of tolerance?
How animals get nutrients in the different cycles
What is feeding?
Interaction when a remora fish attaches to a shark to eat leftover food
What is commensalism?
The type of succession that takes much longer to reach a climax community
What is primary succession?
The name for an organism that is very important in maintaining an ecosystem
What is a keystone species?
The role that an organism plays in its ecosystem
What is a niche?
The process by which nitrates get turned into nitrogen gas
What is denitrification?
Type of interaction when a male deer fights another male deer for the chance to find a mating partner
What is competition?
The species commonly known to be a pioneer species in primary succession
What is lichen?
What is 10%?