Carrying Capacity
Earth Systems
Bio Geo Chemical Cycles
Energy and Matter in Ecosystems
Biomes
100
This is the maximum organisms an ecosystem can hold.
limiting factor, maximum capacity, carrying capacity, threshold
What is a carrying capacity?
100
This is an example of a carbon source.
plants, animals, photosynthesis, cellular respiration, fossil fuels, temperature, climate
What is cellular respiration?
What is burning fossil fuels?
What is tilling soil?
100
This model shows this cycle.
phosphorus, neon, nitrogen, carbon, water
What is the nitrogen cycle?
100
A classification of energy and matter flowing through an ecosystem is recorded in this.
What is a food web?
What is a food pyramid?
What is a food chain?
100
This area is characterized by hot days, cold nights, little precipitation, and a low carrying capacity.
desert, taiga, tundra, tropical, temperate, wetland, river, estuary
What is a desert?
200
These factors can limit the number of organisms that can live in an ecosystem.
What are limiting factors?
What are density dependent factors? (predation, disease)
What are density independent factors? (climate, fires)
200
This is created and amplified with a low pressure system, high sea surface temperatures, and no land to shear the winds.
What is a hurricane?
What is a cyclone?
200
This model shows this.
phosphorus, neon, nitrogen, carbon, water
What is the phosphorus cycle?
200
The direction the arrow points indicates this about energy.
matter flow, energy flow, the organism that eats the other, an increase in energy
Where does the energy flow?
200
This forest is characterized by seasonal weather, moderately average precipitation, and a high carrying capacity.
desert, taiga, tundra, tropical, temperate, wetland, river, estuary
What is a temperate forest?
300
This is the relationships that benefits both organisms.
mutualism, parasitism, predation, competition, commensalism
What is mutualism?
300
This is an example of a carbon sink.
plants, animals, photosynthesis, cellular respiration, fossil fuels, temperature, climate
What is photosynthesis?
What are plants?
What is the soil?
300
This model shows this
phosphorus, neon, nitrogen, carbon, water
What is the water cycle?
300
The lion is this type of consumer
producer, heterotroph, autotroph, primary consumer, tertiary consumer, secondary consumer
What is a secondary consumer?
300
This forest is characterized by warm spring, warm fall, hot summers, and cool winters, high precipitation, high carrying capacities.
desert, taiga, tundra, tropical, temperate, wetland, river, estuary
What is a tropical forest.
400
This is the relationship that benefits one organism and harms another.
mutualism, parasitism, predation, competition, commensalism
What is predation?
What is parasitism?
400
This describes what the atmospheric conditions are outside where we are. This describes the atmospheric conditions of a regional area during a season. (2 questions)
weather, climate, temperature, climate change, global warming
What is weather? What is climate?
400
This model shows this.
phosphorus, neon, nitrogen, carbon, water
What is the carbon cycle?
400
The deer is this type of consumer.
producer, heterotroph, autotroph, primary consumer, tertiary consumer, secondary consumer
What is a primary consumer?
400
This area is characterized by cold days, cold nights, little precipitation, and a low carrying capacity.
desert, taiga, tundra, tropical, temperate, wetland, river, estuary
What is a tundra?
500
What is the relationships that harms both organisms?
mutualism, parasitism, predation, competition, commensalism
What is competition?
500
This describes that atmospheric changes in temperature and rainfall. This describes the change in Earth's average temperature changes. (2 questions)
weather, climate, temperature, climate change, global warming
What is climate change? What is global warming/cooling?
500
These are the biogeochemical cycles disrupted by growing food.
What is the carbon cycle, water cycle, nitrogen cycle, and phosphorus cycle?
500
This organism generates all the energy in the food web. Without it, ecosystems would fail.
producer, heterotroph, autotroph, primary consumer, tertiary consumer, secondary consumer
What is the grass?
What is the autotroph?
500
This area is characterized as inundated or saturated with water for a period of time through the year, it promotes high carrying capacities, sees freshwater, brackish water, and saline water, and is habitat to many migratory waterfowl species.
desert, taiga, tundra, tropical, temperate, wetland, river, estuary
What is a wetland?