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Grey Carbon
Home Sweet Biome
I will Survive
Energy Flow
ECO-Hodge-Podge
100
The absorption of nutrients by plants.
What is Assimilation?
100
This biome is found at the highest latitudes on Earth.
What is the Tundra?
100

This is a type of relationship in which one species feeds off of another (harming it but not killing it).

What is parasitism?

100
90% of energy is lost through trophic levels due to which processes.
What is metabolism, and waste?
100

NPP

What is the NET Primary Production?

200
The BGC cycle which is dependent on weathering and erosion.
What is the Phosphorous cycle?
200
The two biomes which could not exist without ocean circulation.
What are the temperate rainforest, and chapparal?
200

This type of relationship involves two organisms fighting over the same food source?

What is competition?

200
The measurement of biodiversity in an ecosystem.
What is complexity?
200

Low precipitation, extreme high or low temperature, soil poor in organic material. 

What is the desert?

300
Burning of fossil fuels in order power combustion engines.
What is Ignition?
300
The three terrestrial biomes found in the tropics.
What are trop. rainforest, savanna, desert?
300
Measurement of producers conversion of sunlight to biomass.
What is primary productivity?
300
The most abundant producer in the pelagic zone.
What is phytoplankton?
300

Maintained by occasional fires. Moderate precipitation and temperature, low amount of trees. 

What is a grassland?

400
The process of converting nitrates and dead organisms into ammonia.
What is Ammonification?
400
The pelagic biome in which color light does not penetrate.
What is the Bathyal zone?
400
What an organism consumes and where?
What is an ecological niche?
400
What are the ecological levels of organization?
individual, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere
400

Another name for plants. 

What is producers?

500
Fertilizers in the midwest add excess nutrient the Mississippi watershed.
What is Eutrophication?
500
Precipitation and temperature.
What are the factors that determine terrestrial biomes.
500

The type of feeding relationship in which one species benefits (eats) and the other is unaffected.

What is commensalism?

500

The law that states that less energy is available to each consumers as you move up a food chain/web.

What is the 2nd law of Thermodynamics?

500

The degradation of commonly held resources. 

What is the Tragedy of the Commons?