This abiotic factors is described as the change in weather over time.
What is climate?
100
These organisms recycle matter to lower trophic levels from dead organisms.
What are decomposers?
100
The battle over resources between individuals of two species vs. the same species.
What is interspecific vs. intraspecific?
100
Using excess fertilizers has caused a large effect on these 2 matter cycling systems.
What is the nitrogen and phosphorous cycle?
200
Protection from UV rays
What is the atmosphere?
200
This refers to the abundance of possible available habitats for organisms.
What is ecological diversity?
200
This is the relationship between two species in which one benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
200
Organisms which sustain themselves off of direct energy from the sun vs. those who must consume the first type of organisms.
What are autotrophs vs. heterotrophs?
200
This term refers to the build up of toxins introduced in low levels of the food chain.
What is bioaccumulation?
300
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What is the lithosphere?
300
This is said to contribute to the resilience (success) of a ecosystem to withstand pressures.
What is biodiversity?
300
These organisms are the backbone of specific ecosystems.
What is a keystone species?
300
One is the nonliving factors in an ecosystem vs. those which contain DNA.
What is abiotic vs. biotic?
300
By transferring organisms from one habitat to another, we can disrupt natural balance by unintentionally introducing this type of organisms which quickly takes over an ecosystem.
What is an invasive species?
400
Runoff
What is the hydrosphere?
400
This refers to a resource which is in short supply and threatening or stopping the growth of a population's size.
What is a limiting factor?
400
These organisms tend to be considered weeds or pests and they can live in a large range of environmental conditions.
What is a generalist?
400
Organism which die off due to small changes in their environment vs. Organism which die off first when an ecosystem becomes unbalanced in some form.
What is What is specialist vs. indicator?
400
Through selective breeding, humans have decreased this within crop populations, by attempting to make clones of a specific plant or animal.
What is genetic diversity?
500
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What is the biosphere?
500
The transfer of energy between trophic levels and the cycling of matter is based on these physics theories.
What are the Laws of Thermodynamics?
500
These organisms consume small pieces of dead material. Examples are worms or maggots.
What are detrivores?
500
Both considered heterotrophs, the first consumes pieces or the entirety of its prey vs. one that must live in or on its food source.
What is macroconsumer vs. microconsumer?
500
This abiotic factor has been MOST affected by human's increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.