The absorption of nutrients by plants.
What is Assimilation?
This biome is found at the highest latitudes on Earth.
What is the Tundra?
The interaction between bees and sunflowers.
What is mutualism?
90% of energy is lost through trophic levels due to this/these processes
What is heat (i.e. respiration, undigested parts)?
Species that spread rapidly across large areas, causing harm to local species.
What are invasive species?
The BGC cycle which is dependent on weathering and erosion.
What is the Phosphorous cycle?
The muddy bottom of a lake, pond or ocean beneath the limnetic and profundal zones.
What is the benthic zone?
NOTE: You must know the other zones of freshwater biomes and their characteristics for the exam!
The symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other organism is not impacted.
What is commensalism?
The amount of energy available to secondary consumers in a ecosystem that produces 20,000J of energy. (Assume 10 percent ecological efficiency)
What is 200 J ?
The biome that continues to experience warmer temperature and will shift in biome boundaries in the near future.
What is the tundra?
TWO slow parts of the carbon cycle.
What is sedimentation and burial (fossil fuel formation)?
Precipitation and temperature.
What are the factors that determine terrestrial biomes?
or...
What is climate?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Measurement of producers conversion of sunlight to biomass.
What is net primary productivity?
The most abundant producer in the limnetic zone.
What is phytoplankton?
Three of these factors would cause a decrease in squirrel population.
What is increase in fox population?
What is increase in falcon population?
What is decrease in grasses?
The process of converting nitrates and dead organisms into ammonia.
What is Ammonification?
Plants in this biome are particularly adapted to frequent fires on a seasonal basis. (Fire is an evolutionary trigger for reproduction here!)
What is shrubland/chaparral?
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Competition for limited resources between organisms of the same species.
What is intraspecific competition?
The full (balanced) equation for cellular respiration?
What is:
C6H12O6 + 6O2 --> 6CO2 + 6H2O + ATP ?
Fertilizers in the midwest add excess nutrient the Mississippi watershed.
What is Eutrophication?
The process in which solutes are transported through the soil via groundwater.
What is leaching?
The three major terrestrial biomes located in the tropics (between approximately 0° - 25° north and south latitude).
What are tropical rainforest, tropical grasslands (savannah), tropical deserts?
What an organism consumes along with how and where. A description of the its interaction with abiotic and biotic components of the environment.
What is an ecological niche?
atoms --> molecules --> organelles -->cell -->tissue --> organ --> organ system --> individual, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere
What are the levels of biological organization?
Low oxygen concentration in the water due to phosphorus runoff.
What is Hypoxia?