Biomes
Most diverse and hottest terrestrial biome; biome near the equator with warm climate wet weather and lush plant growth
Tropical Rainforest
Consists of evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and transpiration
Hydrologic/Water Cycle
Lizard hunting insects
Predation
Non-living things
Ex: Water, soil, minerals
Abiotic factors
A close long-term interaction between two species in an ecosystem (can be good or bad)
Symbiosis
A biome characterized by low moisture levels and infrequent and unpredictable precipitation; daily and seasonal temperatures fluctuate widely; sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all
Desert
What biotic resource is necessary to the Nitrogen Cycle.
Bacteria
Flowers and Bees
Mutualism
Groups of different species living together in a particular place with a potential for interacting with one another
Community
The rate at which plants and other photosynthetic organisms create new organic matter (biomass) after subtracting the energy they use for their own survival (respiration)
NPP
Net Primary Productivity
A grassland biome with scattered individual trees, large herbivores, and three distinct seasons based primarily on rainfall; maintained by occasional fires and drought
Savannah Grassland
This cycle involves an element that can be found in sedimentary rocks, volcanic ash, aerosols, and mineral dust
Phosphorus Cycle
Orchids growing on branches
Commensalism
Free Points
Free Points
Different species of warbler birds choose to build nests in different parts of a tree. This reduces direct competition with each other. This is called...
Resource Partitioning
Found along the California coast and the coast of the Mediterranean sea; characterized by hot summers and mild, rainy winters; dominated by fire-tolerant shrubs
Shrubland (Chaparral)
The term given to the early step of the nitrogen cycle where gaseous nitrogen is taken from the air and converted to ammonia.
Nitrogen fixation
Aphids on a verbena plant
Parasitism
A group of living organisms of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes
Species
A graph that shows the temperature and precipitation of a biome.
Climatograph or Climatogram
Biome with long, cold winters and small amounts of precipitation; characterized by a northern coniferous forest composed of pine, fir, hemlock, and spruce trees; acidic, mineral-poor topsoils
Taiga "Boreal" Forest
Process that moves the fourth most abundant element between plants, animals, and microbes, as well as minerals in the earth and the atmosphere
Carbon Cycle
Two Hyenas fight over a carcass. (needs to be specific kind of this relationship)
Intraspecific competition
This ecological rule explains why energy transfer between trophic levels is inefficient, with only about 10% of energy passed on to the next level.
10% Rule
This plant-like organism is at the primary producer level of an aquatic biome.
Phytoplankton