Biomes
Biogeochemical Cycles
Types of Relationships
Ecosystems
Vocab
100

Most diverse and hottest terrestrial biome; biome near the equator with warm climate wet weather and lush plant growth

Tropical Rainforest

100

Consists of evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and transpiration

Hydrologic/Water Cycle

100

Lizard hunting insects

Predation

100

Non-living things
Ex: Water, soil, minerals

Abiotic factors

100

When energy is passed in an ecosystem from one trophic level to the next, only ten percent of the energy will be passed on.

10% Rule

200

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

200

This cycle involves evapotranspiration

Hydrologic Cycle

200

Flowers and Bees

Mutualism

200

Groups of different species living together in a particular place with a potential for interacting with one another

Community

200

Interdisciplinary study that uses information and ideas from the physical sciences with those from the social sciences and humanities

Environmental Science

300

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

300

This cycle involves an element that can be found in sedimentary rocks, volcanic ash, aerosols, and mineral dust

Phosphorus Cycle

300

Orchids growing on branches

Commensalism

300

A species that plays an important role in allowing the rest of the ecosystem to function

Keystone Species

300

Depletion or degradation of a potentially renewable resource to which people have free and unmanaged access

Tragedy of the Commons

400

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)

400
Conversion of gaseous nitrogen to ammonia in the nitrogen cycle

Nitrogen fixation

400

Aphids on a verbena plant

Parasitism

400

A group of living organisms of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes

Species

400

Living organisms will continue to live, consuming available materials, until the supply of these materials is exhausted

Law of minimum

500

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

500

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

500

Two Dholes fight over a carcass. (needs to be specific kind of this relationship)

Intraspecific competition

500

Species that parasitizes its prey by laying eggs inside of them.

Parasitoid.

500

The process by which food is made by bacteria or other living things using chemicals as the energy source, typically in the absence of sunlight

Chemosynthesis