Trophic Levels
Biomes
Cycles
Random
Vocab
100
If there are 10,000 kilocalories of energy available at the producer level, how many kilocalories will be available at the tertiary level?
10 kcal
100
True or false: Biomes are determined based on the weather in that location
FALSE-
Climate (temperature and precipitation)
100
Where is the majority of earth's freshwater?
Frozen in glaciers and ice caps
100
Provide an example of a non-anthroprogenic source of greenhouse gasses
volcanoes
denitrification
100
What does "autotroph" mean?
does photosynthesis, is a producer
200
Where does all energy in terrestrial ecosystems originally come from?
The sun
200
True or false: biome boundaries have never changed
FALSE
200
What is the largest nitrogen reservoir?
atmosphere
200
What is an example of an abiotic factor in an ecosystem
varys
200
What does "anthropogenic" mean?
associated with humans
300
Which trophic level always contains the largest total biomass?
Producers
300
which biome is this?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fgHnHifZFDuYQf881rTib4wYivusrN-XGn6uFnO028o/edit?tab=t.0
desert
300
Which is the most common limiting nutrient?
(carbon, phosphorous, water, or nitrogen)
Phosphorous
300
Rank from highest to lowest GWP (global warming potential):
CFCs
H2O
CO2
Methane (CH4)
CFCs
Methane (CH4)
CO2
H2O
300
Provide an example of resource partitioning
answers will vary
400
Draw a food chain and circle the secondary consumer
varys
400
What biome is this?
Tundra
400
Provide an anthropogenic way nitrogen is added to soil
AND
Provide a natural way that nitrogen is added to soil
anthropogenic- fertilizer
natural- nitrogen fixing bacteria or lightening
400
Provide two reasons why wetlands are important
filters water
Carbon sink
biodiversity
prevents flooding
400
What is the competitive exclusion principle?
no two species can exist in the same habitat at the same time competiting for the same limited resource
500
What is the trophic level of a herbivore?
Primary consumer
500
Which biome has low soil nutrients and very high productivity?
Tropical rainforest
500
Provide an example of a fast process in the carbon cycle
combustion, photosynthesis, respiration
500
What is the name of the process through which autotrophs in the deep ocean get energy
chemosynthesis
500
Which law of thermodynamics explains the 10% rule?
The second law of thermodynamics