SB5.a
Abiotic/biotic factors controlling the number of individuals in a population are
What is limiting factors?
the first level of the food pyramid
What is Producer?
The act of deforestation will cause a decrease in what major earthly element
What is oxygen?
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle are used to combat what type of pollution
Hawks and coyotes prey on rabbits that eat grass and seeds in the North American prairie land. What likely effect would increased rainfall over several seasons have on the populations of rabbits, hawks, and coyotes?
What is All three populations would increase.
A lack or resources affects a populations
What is carrying capacity?
The process of photosynthesis is essential in the oxygen/carbon dioxide cycle. Photosynthesis removes ______ from the atmosphere and produces and releases ______ into the atmosphere.
What is carbon dioxide and oxygen?
Fossil fuels release what environmentally changing gas into the atmosphere
What is carbon dioxide?
Carpooling and public transportation reduces the release of what non-renewable resources?
What is fossil fuels?
wildfires have both negative and positive effects on an ecosystem. Which is a negative effect of wildfire on an ecosystem?
What is reduced animal habitats
Sharks continuously help to maintain and hold together an ecosystem. Sharks are an example of what type of species in ecology?
What is keystone species?
What process allows for organisms to use absorbable forms of nitrogen?
What is nitrification?
Which is a non-renewable energy source?
a. wind
b. solar
c. hydropower
d. coal
What is coal?
Non-native species can impact the ____ of ecosystems.
What is biodiversity?
Rising temperatures in aquatic ecosystems causes a large amount of carbon dioxide in the water. The increase of carbon dioxide causes a decrease of ____ in the water.
What is oxygen?
Jenna often visits a large grassland that is around 100 acres. There are 65 cows that graze the land. Jenna notices that once the number of cows reach around 70 the population begins to decrease. What has happened to the population of cows?
What is they have reached their carrying capacity?
In the food web the amount of matter
What is remains constant?
The greenhouse effect uses gasses in the Earth's atmosphere to trap what energy?
What is heat/thermal?
What type of resources helps to reduce the negative impacts of the greenhouse effect?
What is renewable resources?
Lichens and mosses are mostly found in which type of succession?
What is primary?
Foxes live in a large forest and primarily use rabbits as their source of food. Because of a lack of rainfall, the rabbit population has decreased leaving only a certain amount of rabbits for foxes to eat. What is the limiting factor for the foxes population as a result of a smaller rabbit population?
What is competition?
In what biological process is carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere as apart of carbon cycle?
What is cellular respiration?
Deforestation primarily effects what biochemical cycle?
a. phosphorus cycle
b. carbon cycle
c. nitrogen cycle
d. hydrogen cycle
What is carbon cycle?
Climate change cause an immense amount of heat to be trapped in the Earth's atmosphere causing harm to organisms that live in colder climates such as Polar Bears. What major impact could climate change have on the habitats of polar bears?
What is the melting of sea ice/ice caps?
Sharks' sharp teeth would be considered what type of adaptation?
a. behavior
b. protective coloration
c. structural
What is structural?