Ecosystems
An interaction in which one organism lives inside another, often referred to as the host
Parasitism
Biomes are defined by average annual _______ and _______ (2 answers)
temperature
precipitation
How much salt there is in a body of water
Salinity
calcium carbonate precipitates out as sediment & settles on ocean floor
Sedimentation
The term for the water lost to the atmosphere from photosynthesis.
Transpiration
An interaction in which one organism benefits and the other is not affected
Commensalism
Cold year round with low growing vegetation and no trees
Tundra
Narrow band of coastline between high & low tide
Intertidal Zone
Geological process that stores C in underground sinks like sedimentary rock or fossil fuels
Burial
This process occurs when water soaks into the ground and moves through the soil.
Infiltration
An interaction in which a species lays its eggs inside another species. Once hatched, the young typically use the host organism as a food source.
parasitoidism
This biome receives a large amount of precipitation and supports tall trees, mosses, and ferns, and has mild summers.
Temperate Rainforest
areas where rivers empty into the ocean
Estuaries
One of the slowest cycles and the only one that does not readily enter the atmosphere
Phosphorus cycle
The process in the Nitrogen cycle that convers N2 to usable Nitrogen forms later used in nitrification
Nitrogen fixation
Define primary productivity
The rate at which producers, such as plants and algae, convert solar energy into chemical energy stored in organic compounds (biomass).
This biome has warm temperatures and high precipitation year round, but its soil is often nutrient-poor because nutrients are rapidly taken up by the diverse plants and trees.
Tropical rainforest
The shallow region of a lake with emergent plants
Littoral zone
A region of tropical rainforest has 172,000 kcal of plant biomass. Use the 10% Rule to estimate the energy at each trophic level.
Tertiary Consumers - 172 kcal
Secondary Consumers - 1,720 kcal
Primary Consumers - 17,200 kcal
Producers - 172,000 kcal
Tectonic plate movement brings phosphorus-containing rocks and sediments from deep underground back toward Earth’s surface
Geological uplift
Competition where species specialize to in utilizing different aspects of a shared resource
Resource partitioning
This biome has high temperatures and little to no rainfall.
Dessert or subtropical dessert
murky bottom where inverts (bugs) live, nutrient-rich sediments
Benthic zone
Provide an example of a positive and negative feedback loop.
Positive (Self-inflating) - Blood clotting, eutrophication, greenhouse gas effect, Ice/Albedo, etc.
Negative (Self-correcting) - Body temperature, blood sugar, predator/prey balance, water cycle/precipitation, etc.
The process in the Nitrogen cycle that convers nitrate (NO3) to nitrogen gas (N2)
Denitrification