Vocabulary
A relationship where one species benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is Commensalism?
Examples include sunlight, water, and soil.
What are Abiotic factors?
The amount of energy is passed from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10%?
Bacteria and fungi are prime examples of this role
Decomposer
Evaporation from leaves of plants
What is transpiration?
The specific role or job an organism has in its environment.
What is a Niche?
The species that often causes the most disruption to ecosystems
What are Humans?
The primary source of energy for most ecosystems
What is Sunlight?
Energy stored in biomass that can be passed on to primary consumers
What is net primary production?
The three fossil fuels
What is coal, oil, and natural gas?
Two species cannot occupy the same niche
What is the competitive exclusion principle?
A living factor that limits a population's size
What is a predator?
Species that have a disproportionately higher impact on the structure and diversity of an ecosytem
What are keystone species?
The primary energy source produced through cellular respiration
What is ATP?
The process of converting ammonium to nitrate and nitrites
What is nitrification?
Competition between different species
What is interspecific competition?
These physically feed on dead material
What are detritovores?
Most limiting factor for aquatic biomes
What is phosphorous?
This area of a pond or lake has moderate depth, nutrients, and productivity
Was is the mesotrophic depth?
What is weathering?
The levels of organization of life from smallest to largest
What are Cell, Tissue, Organ, Organ System, Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biome, Biosphere?
Species whose health or presence signals the condition of an ecosystem
What is an indicator species?
This zone is at the bottom of standing water and receives low light.
What is the benthic zone?
The two major climate factors that shape a biome
What is temperature and precipitation?
Two greenhouse gases that are released through enteric digestion and cellular respiration
What are methane and carbon dioxide?