Ecosystems
This is known as a species preferred habitat.
What is a niche?
A graph with a double y axis plotting monthly average temperature and precipitation is called this.
What is a climatograph?
These two features hold 68.7% of all fresh water on Earth.
What are glaciers and ice caps?
A carbon reservoir that stores more carbon than it releases is known as this. Also: name the largest one in the world.
What is a carbon sink? The Oceans.
A living part of the ecosystem is referred to as this
What is the biotic?
This type of symbiosis benefits only one species, while harming the other.
What is parasitism?
This biome has the highest level of biodiversity and rainfall.
What is the tropical rainforest?
What is the Benthic zone?
Carbon enters the biotic world through these two processes.
What are photosynthesis and chemosynthesis?
This type of symbiosis benefits both species.
What is mutualism?
This type of symbiosis benefits only one species, without harming the other.
What is commensalism?
When precipitation totals are less than the temperatures on a climatograph, it indicates this is true about a biome.
What is extreme dryness? Ex: Desert, Taiga, Tundra.
While freshwater has less than 0.5 ppt of salt, the open ocean averages this level of salinity.
What is 35 ppt?
This curve tracks atmospheric CO2 concentrations in Mauna Loa.
What is the Keeling Curve?
This variable is the measured outcome of an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
This type of competition results in increased overall species fitness.
What is INTRAspecific?
This biome is influenced by marine weather and dependent on fire.
What is Chaparral / Scrubland?
This term for the rate of photosynthesis determines the amount of energy available in an ecosystem to support life.
What is productivity?
In addition to the burning of fossil fuels, these two processes also return carbon to the atmosphere.
What are cellular respiration and decay?
This type of hypothesis predicts that no relationship exists between the independent and dependent variables.
What is a null hypothesis?
This type of competition results in resource partitioning.
What is INTERspecific?
This biome is characterized by long dry seasons and is dominated by grasses, shrubs, and grazing animals.
What is Savanna?
This species supply a large portion of the Oxygen of the planet and are found largely in the upper few hundred feet of bodies of water.
What are phytoplankton?
This substance in the Earth sequesters carbon, and it cannot be burned as a fossil fuel.
What is limestone?
Complete the following formula.
GPP =
What is GPP = NPP + Rp