Ecosystems
This organism makes its own food using sunlight.
What is a producer (autotroph)?
A species with a large effect on its ecosystem.
What is a keystone species?
The maximum population an environment can support.
What is carrying capacity?
This layer of the atmosphere contains weather.
What is the troposphere?
This concept occurs when individuals acting in their own self-interest deplete a shared resource, even though it harms everyone in the long run.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
Only this percentage of energy is transferred to the next trophic level.
What is 10%?
The first organisms to colonize bare rock.
What are pioneer species?
A J-shaped growth curve represents this type of growth.
What is exponential growth?
These plate boundaries slide past each other.
What are transform boundaries?
Excess nutrients causing algal blooms and oxygen depletion.
What is eutrophication?
GPP - Respiration=?
What is NPP?
A non-native species that harms native species.
What is an invasive species?
70 divided by growth rate gives this.
What is doubling time?
This atmospheric layer contains the ozone layer.
What is the stratosphere?
These gases trap heat in Earth's atmosphere.
What are greenhouse gases?
This cycle relies on bacteria to convert atmospheric nitrogen into usable forms.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
The acronym HIPPCO represents the major causes of this.
What is biodiversity loss?
Humans are generally considered this type of species.
What are K-selected species?
The apparent deflection of winds due to Earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
SO₂ and NOx combine to form this.
What is acid rain?
The role a organism plays in its ecosystem.
What is a niche?
Succession that begins without soil.
What is primary succession?
When a population exceeds carrying capacity and crashes.
What is overshoot and dieback?
The rising of deep, nutrient-rich water to the surface.
What is upwelling?
An example of a renewable energy source.
What is solar, wind, hydroelectric, or geothermal energy?