Vocabulary
Labs
Pyramids
Land Biomes
Water Biomes
100
The study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment.
What is ecology
100
A owl throw this up because its body can not digest it.
What is an owl pellet
100
The percent of energy that is passed from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10 percent
100
The hottest and wettest biome. It has the most animals in it.
What is tropical rain forest
100
An example of a standing freshwater biome
What is lake or pond
200
The lowest level of organization in ecology (a single species)
What is Individual
200
Name of the island where we studied moose and wolves
What is Isle Royale
200
Name of the pyramid where it shows the amount of calories in each trophic level.
What is energy pyramid
200
Cold, short summers, low precipitation and permafrost. Animals include arctic fox and caribou.
What is tundra
200
Where freshwater meets salt water
What is estuaries
300
These are autotrophs and they produce their own energy from the sun or from inorganic compounds.
What is producer
300
If the vole eats grass and the owl eats the vole, what is the owl considered. Be specific (level wise)
What is secondary consumer
300
Name of the pyramid that shows the amount of living tissue within each trophic level
What is biomass pyramid
300
Warm temperatures, seasonal rainfall, frequent fires, tall perennial grasses, lions, zebras and is found in large parts of Africa.
What is tropical savanna
300
First level of a marine biome
What is intertidal zone
400
a full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives. The way the organisms uses these conditions (food, reproduction etc.)
What is niche
400
The number of moose that it's ecosystem could support it named this. (2 words)
What is carrying capacity
400
Name of the pyramid where the relative number of individual organisms are in each trophic level
What is pyramid of numbers
400
The biome of isle royale
What is Boreal Forest
400
The largest marine zone- covering 90% of the surface area of the world's oceans
What is open ocean
500
When an ecosystem has a scarce amount of this nutrient and or it cycles very slowly.
What is limiting nutrient
500
Name a factor of why moose numbers would decline.
What is increased wolves, ticks, or low fir trees.
500
Why is only 10 percent of energy passes on?
What is the rest is used for life processes such as respiration, movement and reproduction.
500
Name the two "extra's" that we added on to land biomes
What is mountain caps and polar
500
The water biome where no light hits.
What is benthic zone
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