UNIT 1 LW ECOSYSTEMS
Living things like plants and animals are called these factors.
What are biotic factors?
The variety of life in an area is called this.
What is biodiversity?
The total number of individuals of one species in an area is called this.
What is a population?
Earthquakes usually happen along these lines.
What are transform plate boundaries?
Overfishing has this effect of biodiversity
What is a negative effect?
An ecosystem includes living things and these nonliving parts like water and soil
What are abiotic factors?
The range of conditions an organism can survive in is called this.
What is range of Tolerance?
Species that have many babies and little parental care are called this.
What are r-selected species?
sand, __________, and silt are all soil components
What is clay?
The most potent greenhouse gas that is produced by farm animals
What is methane?
This biome is hot, dry, and has very little rainfall.
What is a desert?
Native birds started disappearing from the Pacific Island of Guam. They eventually found that non-native brown tree snakes were eating all the birds and their eggs. The brown tree snake is an example of...
What is invasive species?
The maximum population an environment can support is called this.
What is carrying capacity?
This the layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is troposphere?
The most common land type in the united states.
What are crops and grazing land?
This nutrient cycle does NOT have a gas phase and mostly comes from rocks.
What is the phosphorus cycle?
This type of succession happens after a forest fire.
What is secondary succession?
The average number of children a woman has is called this.
What is total fertility rate?
The inner most layer of the earth.
What is inner core?
Soil type, population size, and topography are all used to help determine...
What is land use?
The amount of energy that is transferred from one organism to the next?
What is 10%?
Monoculture farming has a high biomass and low ________ __________
What is species richness?
The human population grows...
What is exponentially?
Good fishing and a drought in the East Pacific indicates this type of year
What is La Nina?
This allows farmers to know the best time to use pesticides on their crops.
What is a phenology wheel?