An animal's feeding relationship with other animals is its what?
What is trophic level
100
Managing something for someone else.
What is stewardship
100
Living things and non-living things in an ecosystem.
What is biotic and abiotic
200
Branch of science that studies relationships within an ecosystem.
What is ecology
200
Three divisions of aquatic biomes
What is freshwater, saltwater, brackish
200
One organism hunting another for food.
What is predation
200
Two unbiblical perspectives that modern environmental movement holds.
What is pantheism and putting plant's or animal's needs above our own.
200
All the organisms of one species in an ecosystem.
What is population
300
Range of conditions in which an organism can survive.
What is tolerance range
300
Dominant plant species in a biome. Dominant plant and animal species.
What is climax vegetation, climax community
300
1. This organism converts light to simple sugars that provide energy
2. This organism uses chemicals to obtain energy.
What is photoautotroph
What is chemoautotroph
300
Attitude toward nature that the Bible teaches.
What is follow God's example of provision and concern (good stewardship).
300
All the living things in an ecosystem.
What is community
400
Four important abiotic factors
What is radiation, temperature, water, atmosphere
400
Levels in order of largest to smallest, the levels of a biome.
What is ecosystem, community, population, organism
400
Name three types of symbiosis
What is mutualism, parasitism, commensalism
400
Your book says this isn't cost effective, nor is it helpful to the environment because it produces so much waste.
What is recycling
400
A condition outside an organism's tolerance range.
What is limiting factor.
500
Three major types of biogeochemical cycles.
What is hydrologic, atmospheric and sedimentary
500
These three clues state differences between two closely related biomes. Which are they?
1. one has permafrost, the other does not
2. one has good water drainage, other does not
3. one is at higher elevation, other does not
What is alpine tundra and arctic tundra
500
1. These are MICROSCOPIC organisms and feed on detritus and break it into nutrients that are returned to soil (bacteria, fungi, etc.)
2. These are MACROSCOPIC organisms that consume detritus but can't convert it into nutrients for the soil (earthworms)
What is
1. decomposers
2. detrivores
500
The trend in today's society is to take a very aggressive approach to environmental issues. The media frequently present only one side of a topic, making more of the issue than what may actually be true. This type of information is...
What is biased information
500
Put these in order from first trophic level to fourth (from producer to tertiary consumer).
rabbits, clover, hawks, snakes