Biomes
Species Interactions
Biogeochem Cycles
Productivity
Food Chains & Webs
100
Examples include taiga, shrubland, and tundra.
What are terrestrial biomes?
100
Any close and long-term interaction between two organisms of different species
What is symbiosis?
100
The power source of the hydrologic cycle.
What is the Sun?
100
The rate at which solar energy is converted into organic compounds via photosynthesis over a unit of time.
What is primary productivity?
100
A model of an interlocking pattern of food chains that depicts the flow of energy and nutrients in two or more food chains.
What is a food web?
200
This is the biome where rivers empty into the ocean.
What is an estuary?
200
One species benefits while the other is neither benefited nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
200
The major reservoir of the nitrogen cycle.
What is the atmosphere?
200
The total rate of photosynthesis in a given area.
What is gross primary productivity?
200
Organisms occupying the same feeding position in a food web.
What is a trophic level?
300
The 2 zones of the ocean.
What are photic and aphotic?
300
The relationship between a tapeworm and the host that is lives inside.
What is parasitism?
300
This biogeochemical cycle has no atmospheric component.
What is the phosphorus cycle?
300
The units for primary productivity.
What is energy/area/time?
300
The scientific law that is demonstrated in biogeochemical cycles, food chains, food webs, etc.
What is the 1st law of thermodynamics?
400
The factors that characterize terrestrial biomes.
What are annual temperature, precipitation, nutrient availability?
400
A species on which other species in an ecosystem largely depend, if it were removed the ecosystem would change drastically.
What is a keystone species?
400
The two carbon cycle processes that exchange carbon in living things.
What are photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
400
The rate of energy storage by photosynthesizers in a given area, after subtracting the energy lost to respiration.
What is net primary productivity?
400
An ecological event that involves changes to the structure of an ecosystem resulting from changes in animals or plants.
What is a trophic cascade?
500
The characteristics that define aquatic biomes.
What are salinity, depth, temperature and flow?
500
When species use limiting resources in different ways, places, or times to reduce competition.
What is resource partitioning?
500
The process in which atmospheric nitrogen is converted into a form of nitrogen (primarily ammonia) that is available for uptake by plants.
What is nitrogen fixation?
500
The gross primary productivity (GPP) of a meadow in southeastern Kansas is found to be 38,000 kcal/m2. Respiration which is measured by the amount of CO2 released is 13,500 kcal/m2, What is the net primary productivity (NPP) for this ecosystem, in kcal/m2/ year?
What is 24,500 kcal/m2/year?
500
Write out a food chain with 4 trophic levels from the following food web:
What is: lavender --> butterfly --> frog --> python