Biomes and Climate
This cold biome has a very low NPP due to a short growing season.
What is the tundra?
These organisms make their own energy in a food system and have the highest amount of available energy.
What are producers?
This term describes the variety of life in an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
This term is used to describe the maximum number of organisms an environment can sustain.
What is carrying capacity?
This is the process by which ecosystems gradually change over time.
What is ecological succession?
This biome has the highest NPP and a long growing season.
What is the rainforest?
This species has a disproportionately large impact on its ecosystem relative to its abundance.
What are keystone species.
This type of interaction benefits one species and harms the other.
If a population exceeds its capacity, it may experience this sharp decline.
What is dieback?
This type of species first settles into a barren area during succession
What are pioneer species?
These three atmospheric cells help determine climate at different latitudes.
What are Hadley, Ferrel, and Polar cells?
This term is used to describe the total amount of energy captured by producers in an ecosystem.
What is GPP?
This type of species exhibits little parental care, produces many offspring, and experiences rapid population growth.
What is an r selected species?
A population that grows rapidly without limits follows this type of growth curve.
What is exponential growth.
As an ecosystem experiences succession, this happens to its biodiversity.
What is experiencing growth?
These 2 factors most often affect NPP in a biome
What are temperature and precipitation?
If the producer level of an ecosystem has 5,000 units of available energy, how much would be available to the secondary consumers?
What is 50 units?
These are the three levels of biodiversity
What is genetic diversity, species diversity, and ecosystem diversity.
This happens when a population temporarily exceeds its capacity
What is overshoot?
Name a human activity that can interrupt or alter succession.
What is deforestation, agriculture, urban development, or pollution?
This global feature is influenced by the Coriolis effect and helps distribute heat and moisture around the planet.
What are wind patterns?
This formula is used to calculate NPP
What is GPP-Respiration?
A forest has 5 different tree species. The number of individuals of each species is as follows:
What is the species richness of this forest?
What is 5?
Give an example of a density-independent limiting factor
What is Pollution, Human Activities, Natural disasters, or severe weather?
Periodic, episodic, and random are types of this event that can disturb an ecosystem.