Environment
All conditions surrounding us that influence life.
What is the environment?
Sequence of consumption from producers to consumers.
What is the food chain?
Movements of matter within and between ecosystems.
What are the biogeochemical cycles?
The two main categories that biomes are divided into.
A group of organisms that is distinct in body structure, behavior, or biochemical properties.
What is a species?
Particular location with interacting components with biotic or abiotic components.
What is the ecosystem?
The successive levels of organism consumption.
What are the trophic levels?
The returning of water to the atmosphere in the hydrologic cycle.
What is evaporation?
The biome with the highest soil nutrient levels.
What is the temperate seasonal forest?
The evolution of a new species.
What is speciation?
Anthropocentric, Ecocentric, and Biocentric.
What are the environmental worldviews?
Organisms that obtain energy from eating producers.
What are primary consumers?
The chemical process of rapid reaction between a substance with an oxidant, usually oxygen, to produce heat and light that occurs in the carbon cycle.
What is combustion?
The three biomes that start with "temperate."
What are the temperate grassland/cold desert, the temperate seasonal forest, and the temperate rainforest?
The change in genetic composition over time.
What is evolution?
The current state of environmental systems (biological diversity, food production, global surface temperatures, human population, resource depletion).
What are the environmental indicators?
Organism that converts organic matter into elements and molecules that are recycled.
What is a decomposer?
The cycle in which an element is fixed from the atmosphere by bacteria.
The aquatic biome in which there is flowing fresh water from rain or snow runoff and is too rapid from producers.
What are streams and rivers?
Evolutionary process in which humans determine which animals breed.
What is artificial selection/selective breeding?
Processes by which life supporting resources are produced.
What are ecosystem services?
The total amount of solar energy that producers capture via photosynthesis.
What is gross primary productivity?
The limiting nutrient in many aquatic ecosystems.
What is phosphorous?
The zone that can exist in the open ocean biome or lakes and ponds biome in which sunlight cannot penetrate. The profundal zone is a type of this zone.
What is the aphotic zone?
A species that can live in a wide range of abiotic/biotic conditions.
What is a niche generalist?