Ecosystems
This refers to living elements of an ecosystem.
What is biotic?
A term meaning "surroundings".
Water cycle, oxygen cycle, nitrogen cycle, phosphorus cycle, carbon cycle.
What are biogeochemical cycles?
This strategy involves little to no parental care and having lots of offspring.
What is the r-stragetist?
In this process, organisms better adapted to their environment survive and produce more offspring.
What is Natural Selection?
The percentage lost at each level of the trophic pyramid.
What is 90%?
The belief that things happened really slowly over time with gradual changes. Holds that the earth is Billions, not thousands of years old.
What is Uniformitarianism?
This element is a limiting agent for plants and algae. If there is too much in a lake, the algae will take over.
What is phosphorus?
This type of survivorship curve describes organisms that have a constant mortality rate their whole life cycle.
What is the Type II curve?
Organism that eats producers in a trophic pyramid.
What are primary consumers?
These show where the energy is moving in a food web.
What are arrows?
What is the Earth's tilt?
2.1
Relationship where both species benefit.
This biome has all 4 seasons and moderate to cool temperatures.
What is a temperate forest?
The allowable dissolved particles for drinkable water.
What is 500ppm?
What is the stratosphere?
1 in 12
The number of people worldwide who are malnourished.
Ecosystems depend on these specific types of organisms for the survival of the rest of the species.
The 3 Types of biodiversity.
What are species, habitat, and genetic?
This type of soil retains water but not air very well.
What is silt?
This phenomenon is caused by the earth's rotation and its effect on the winds and ocean currents.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Populations will switch from exponential growth to logistic growth when this is reached.
What is the carrying capacity?
Coal, oil, natural gas
What are fossil fuels?