Vocabulary
The living factors that can affect an Ecosystem.
What is Biodiversity?
When succession has occurred in areas where previous growth has occurred.
What is natural secondary succession?
The role an organism plays within its ecosystem.
What is a Niche?
A tapeworm infection among humans would be considered.
What is parasitism?
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The many different species that live together within an ecosystem.
What is a Community?
Some organisms cause decay and break down dead matter into raw nutrients.
What are decomposers?
PLace where a population lives.
What is a habitat?
A barnacle hitches a ride on a whale.
What is Commensalism?
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What was the MN Wild score?
An interconnected map of food chains.
What is a food web?
Population size that an environment can sustain.
What is carrying capacity?
Living things that can affect an ecosystem.
What is Biotic factor?
When 2 organisms benefit from their relationship.
What is mutualism?
The back and forth evolutionary adjustments between 2 or more species.
What is Coevolution?
The study of interaction of organisms with each other and with their environment.
What is Ecology?
Rate of population growth (r)
What is the birth rate- death rate?
The process by which an organism converts absorbed nutrients into usable cellular components.
What is assimilation?
List the Biome, community,ecosystem, biosphere, population in order smallest to greatest.
What is Population, community, ecosystem, Biome , biosphere?
When a species comes in and disrupts the ecosystem.
What is Invasive?
The rate at which plants produce sugars from the sun.
What is Primary productivity?
Scientists are investigating the cause of the large increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration. The best explanation of this is.
What is the use of fossil fuels?
A lake in MN was full of bass and bluegill, these fish build nests on lake floor. Now they are finding a layer has covered the lake floor and bass fish populations are declining. Other fish that can build and thrive in the layer are rising in numbers.
What is Succession?
There are 10,000 calories per m2 present found in the producer level, how many calories may be found in the first level of consumers?
What is 1,000 calories/m2?
A way that water is returned to the atmosphere during the water cycle.(2 answers)
What is Transpiration and Evaporation.