Geography & Ecosystem Services
Ecology
Timber Harvest & Succession
Fire Ecology & Nevada
Oceans
100
Continent #2
North America
100
All food chains & webs start with this
Producers
100
Where does primary succession occur?
Place where there is no life - bare rock
100
What is the most invasive plant in Nevada?
Cheatgrass
100
What characteristics does a highly productive ocean have?
cold water = high nutrients
200
Continent 5
Asia
200
A zebra that ate grass is acting as a
Primary Consumer
200
Where does secondary succession occur?
Area with an already established ecosystem - after fire
200
What Nevada plant has oils in it that catch on fire easily?
Sagebrush
200
What adaptations must an organism have to live in the tidal zone?
survive in different water levels & amount of light, attach themselves to something
300
Ocean 1 & 5
Pacific & Southern
300
An herbivore eats
plants
300
What is an uneven aged stand?
Forest with trees at different age levels
300
How is an annual plant different than a perennial plant?
An annual lives for one year & a perennial lives for more than 2 years
300
Toxins increasing in an organisms body is called
Bioaccumulation
400
What ecosystem service category has wood, food & fuel as examples?
Provisioning
400
Type of relationship where both organism benefit from the interaction
Mutualism
400
How is the amazon usually cleared?
slash-and-burn
400
What should forest management for wildfire look like?
trees spaced out, no dead debris on forest floor, tree branches high off ground
400
Toxins traveling through a food chain is called
biomagnification
500
Name of the ecosystem service that involves fundamental processes that maintain other services.
Supporting
500
Biome known as the cold desert
Tundra
500
The ecological values of timber are
filter air pollution, protect against runoff & erosion, store carbon, increase biodiversity
500
Why are fires good for a forest?
"reset" button, increase biodiversity, clear out dead brush
500
How does climate change affect oceans?
acidification, warmer water, sea level rise, less productive