Toil with soil
What is the term for how easily water passes through a substance?
Permeability
The animal at the top of a food web is called what?
Apex predator
What is the formula to calculate NPP?
GPP - RL
What is the biome that is submerged in water for part of the year called?
Wetlands
A group of animals of the same species is called what?
A Population
Rank the soil substances from greatest porosity to least
Sand Silt Clay
What is the name for organisms at the bottom of the food web?
Producers
The phosphorus cycle is unique because it lacks this phase.
Atmospheric
What is the area of the Earth where most of the world's earthquakes occur called?
The ring of fire.
Two organisms that are benefiting from each other demonstrate this interaction.
Mutualism.
The C horizon can also be called what?
Bedrock
What could happen because of the removal of an apex predator?
Trophic Cascade.
How do plants draw in water from the soil around them?
Osmosis
What is the definition of a biome?
An area that shares a similar yearly temperature as well as precipitation percentage.
What is any long-term form of interaction between two species called?
Symbiosis.
The process of rocks breaking down into smaller pieces is called this.
Weathering
What are the organisms that eat producers called?
Primary consumers
Describe the fast cycle of CO2
Plants take it in to make energy, and all organisms release it through respiration.
What is the crumbly rock that sits on top of the mantle called?
The Lithosphere.
A group of animals living in any specific area is called this.
A Community.
Soil that is 20 percent sand, 30 percent clay, and 50 percent silt is called what?
Clay loam
The direction of the arrows in a food web shows…
The direction of energy flow.
What is the chemical formula for the type of nitrogen that can be used by plants?
NH4+ or NH3-
In a convergent plate boundary, which plate gets pushed below the other one?
The denser plate.
An interaction where one organism benefits and the other does not change is this type.
Commensalism.