Carry Capacity and Populations (Bio1.LS2.1)
This term describes all the living and nonliving things interacting in a particular area.
What is an ecosystem?
What is interdependence within an ecosystem (or a food web)?
What is 10%?
A wildfire, flood, or hurricane that changes an ecosystem is known as this.
What is a disturbance?
This human activity often destroys habitats by clearing forests for farming, roads, or buildings.
What is deforestation?
This process allows plants to use sunlight to make their own food. (Bio1.LS1.4)
What is photosynthesis?
A rabbit eats grass, making the rabbit this type of organism in a food chain.
What is a primary consumer?
Grass contains 10,000 calories of stored energy. According to the 10% rule, approximately this much energy is available to the primary consumers that eat the grass.
What is 1,000 calories?
This term describes an ecosystem's ability to recover after a disturbance.
What is resilience?
Creating protected areas such as national parks is a strategy used to conserve this.
What is biodiversity?
A growing teenager uses nutrients from food to build muscle tissue. This demonstrates that matter can be broken down and then ______ into new macromolecules. (Bio1.LS1.5)
What is recombined?
When two different species both rely on the same limited resource, such as food or space, this interaction occurs.
What is competition?
This type of diagram shows the amount of energy available at each trophic level in an ecosystem.
What is an energy pyramid?
What is primary succession?
A city plants native species and restores wetlands to improve water quality and wildlife habitat. This is an example of this type of environmental solution.
What is habitat restoration?
This process releases energy from glucose so cells can perform work. (Bio1.LS1.6)
What is cellular respiration?
Clownfish gain protection from sea anemones, while sea anemones receive nutrients from the clownfish. This type of symbiotic relationship benefits both species.
What is mutualism?
If a secondary consumer receives 100 units of energy, this amount of energy was likely available to the primary consumer below it.
What is 1,000 J (Joules)?
Two forests experience wildfires. One burns a small section, while the other destroys nearly all vegetation and soil. The second forest will likely require more time to recover because it experienced a greater level of this.
What is disturbance?
A coastal community experiences declining sea turtle populations due to beachfront development. Requiring shielded lights, protecting nesting areas, and limiting construction near beaches are examples of actions designed to reduce this human impact.
What is habitat disruption (or habitat loss)?
Carbon moves from the atmosphere into plants through photosynthesis and returns to the atmosphere through respiration, decomposition, and combustion. This describes the movement of matter through which biogeochemical cycle? (Bio1.LS1.6)
What is the carbon cycle?
A disease drastically reduces the wolf population in an ecosystem. Over time, the deer population increases and vegetation declines. This illustrates how changes in one species can affect the entire ecosystem through these interconnected relationships.
What is interdependence within an ecosystem (or a food web)?
A forest ecosystem has 50,000 units of energy in producers. Using the 10% rule, only about 50 units of energy would be available to organisms at this trophic level: producers → primary consumers → secondary consumers → tertiary consumers.
What are tertiary consumers?
What is the order of regrowth for secondary succession?
grasses ->shrubs -> evergreen trees -> hard-wood trees
After implementing a recycling program, a school finds that waste sent to landfills decreases, but litter on campus remains high. According to the engineering design process, the next step is to improve the plan by doing this. DD
What is refine the solution?
This molecule is the main form of usable energy produced by cellular respiration. (Bio1.LS1.6)
What is adenosine triphosphate? (ATP)