Ecology and Systems
True or false:
Food chains are used as a more accurate representation to show how animals feed on each other.
What is false?
(Food webs are used more often than food chains)
Name three biogeochemical cycles.
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What is water, carbon, and nitrogen cycle?
Direct result of deforestation
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What is loss of biodiversity?
What is soil erosion?
True or False:
Installing solar panels onto your home can help reduce your greenhouse gas emissions.
What is true?
What organisms does primary succession usually begin with?
What is mosses and lichens?
A predator and prey relationship
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What is lion and zebra, spider and fly, and fox and rabbit?
Explain the 10% rule
What is each trophic level only gains 10% of energy from the one before it?
Fill in the blank:
Urbanization often leads to __________ destruction.
What is habitat?
Name 3 non-renewable energy resources
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What is Natural gas, oil, and coal?
Definition:
The first species to colonize a a new area.
What is pioneer species?
Fill in the blank:
A __________ species has a disproportionately large impact on the stability of it ecosystem
What is keystone species?
One way invasive species can effect food webs.
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What is Replace native species?
What is Heavy predation on native species?
What is Depleting natural resources?
Describe clear-cutting
What is the practice of cutting down most/all of the trees in an area?
Definition:
A form of energy released from the nucleus, the core of atoms, made up of protons and neutrons.
What is nuclear energy?
At what level of succession does a community have to most biodiversity?
What is climax community?
Give an example of a keystone, indicator, and an invasive species.
Ex.
What is beavers, coral reef, and the Burmese Python?
First step of the carbon cycle
What is carbon entering the atmosphere?
Part of the ocean with the highest pH, and why.
What is deep sea and the lack CO2 in the water.
Why are non-renewable resources used more than renewable resources?
What is lower cost and more readily available?
Explain why genetic diversity important for organisms.
What is it allows for species to adapt to changing environments and diseases.
The difference between an ecosystem and a community.
What is ecosystems encompasses an environment in its whole; biotic factors like grasshopper, deer, and fish. Additionally, the abiotic factors: rocks, sunlight, and water. On the other hand, a community solely focuses on the biotic factors?
Why is phosphorus a limiting factor in ecosystems?
What is its low availability in soil?
Describe how population growth effects the environment in 3 ways
What is an increased demand for resources, pollution, and climate change.
What is the major risk of using nuclear energy?
What is radioactive waste?
Name all the levels of succession.
What is primary succession, secondary succession, and a climax community.