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Energy flow and cycles
Community Ecology
Relationships
Biomes
100
Factor that stays the same in an experiment
What is control/constant?
100
Model representing the many interconnected food chains and pathways in which energy flows through organisms
What is food web?
100
Establishment of a community in an area of exposed rock with no topsoil.
What is primary succession?
100
Examples are temperature, rainfall, oxygen and sunlight
What is abiotic factors?
100
Rate of evaporation exceeds rate of precipitation.
What is desert?
200
Explanation supported with evidence
What is theory?
200
Each step in a chain or food web.
What is trophic level?
200
First species to appear after a change in an ecosystem.
What is pioneer species?
200
Biological community and all abiotic and biotic factors
What is ecosystem?
200
Most diverse biome with lots of rain
What is tropical rain forest?
300
Factor that is changed and being tested and might affect the experiments outcome.
What is independent variable?
300
The nutrient that has only a short-term biogeochemical cycle.
What is nitrogen?
300
Any abiotic or biotic factor that restricts numbers and reproduction of organisms
What is limiting factor?
300
More than 1 organism uses a resourse at the same time.
What is competition?
300
No trees and permafrost
What is tundra?
400
Based on observations, evidence and testing
What is explanations?
400
Bottom level of an energy pyramid
What is producers?
400
Stable mature community
What is climax community?
400
Relationship when 2 or more species live together
What is symbiosis?
400
Includes oceans
What is Marine biome?
500
Descriptive generalization of an aspect in the natural world often expressed with mathmatics
What is law?
500
Exchange of matter through the biosphere.
What is biogeochemical cycle?
500
Change in an ecosystem that happens when one community replaces another as a result of changing abiotic and biotic factors
What is ecological succession?
500
Portion of earth that supports life?
What is biosphere?
500
Cool climate, no permafrost
What is boreal forest?
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