Global Winds
The apparent deflection of winds caused by Earth’s rotation.
What is the Coriolis effect?
Name the ecosystem service: The production of food, timber, and fresh water.
What are provisioning services?
The maximum population size an environment can sustainably support.
What is carrying capacity (K)?
Clownfish and anemones exemplify this relationship where both benefit.
What is mutualism?
The genetic variety within a population or species is known as this type of biodiversity.
What is genetic diversity?
Species like mice that reproduce quickly and in large numbers.
What are r-selected species?
Species that die at a constant rate throughout their lives show this curve.
What is Type II?
This biome has the lowest NPP because water strongly limits photosynthesis.
What is the desert?
Dry descending air at 30° latitude creates these biomes.
What are deserts?
What are the pioneer species of primary succession?
What is lichen and moss?
A population growing with no limiting factors and abundant resources follows this type of curve.
What is exponential growth?
The proportion of energy passed from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10%?
The amount of energy available to consumers after producers use energy for respiration.
What is NPP?
Species with few offspring, high parental care, and stable populations.
What are K-selected species?
Many offspring but very few survive to adulthood describe this curve.
What is Type III?
This cold, treeless biome contains permafrost and has the shortest growing season of any terrestrial biome.
What is the tundra?
In a Hadley cell, warm moist air rises at the equator, cools, condenses, and forms what climate (biome) outcome?
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What are tropical rainforests?
This type of ecological succession follows a disturbance like a fire or hurricane when soil remains intact.
What is secondary succession?
When a population overshoots its carrying capacity, this event often follows.
What is a die-off?
Organisms that make their own food appear at this trophic level.
What are producers?
Ecosystems with high species richness tend to be more resilient, meaning they have high ______.
What is biodiversity/ ecosystem stability?
Species that can thrive in a wide range of environmental conditions.
What are generalists?
Species with this curve invest heavily in parental care.
What is Type I?
This biome has long dry seasons and is dominated by grasses, shrubs, and grazing animals.
What is the savanna?
Hadley cells circulate air between these two latitudes.
What are 0° and 30°?
Mangrove forests and coral reefs reduce storm surge impacts on coastal communities, offering this service.
What is regulating?
A density-dependent limiting factor affecting population size.
What is competition, disease, or predation? (Any)
When one organism feeds on another without killing it, such as a flea on a dog.
What is parasitism?
The equation for calculating NPP
What is NPP=GPP - R?
Species highly adapted to narrow niches and specific diets.
What are specialists?
Humans typically follow this type of survivorship curve.
What is Type I?
Most nutrients in this biome are stored in biomass rather than soil because decomposition is so rapid.
What is the tropical rainforest?
Hadley cells are driven by this fundamental environmental factor.
What is unequal solar radiation (differential heating)?
Soil microbes break down organic matter and recycle nutrients that plants need to grow, providing this ecosystem service.
What is supporting?
A sudden frost killing a large number of insects regardless of population size is an example of this type of limiting factor.
What is a density independent factor?
Barnacles hitchhiking on a whale is an example of this relationship.
What is commensalism?
In terrestrial ecosystems, NPP tends to increase with these two abiotic factors.
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What is temperature and precipitation?
A panda is an example of a specialist species mainly because it feeds almost exclusively on this food.
What is bamboo?
Sea turtles typically exhibit this survivorship pattern.
What is Type III?
This biome experiences frequent fires, has scattered shrubs and woody plants, and a Mediterranean climate of hot dry summers and mild winters.
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What is the chapparal?