Ecosystems
This is known as a species preferred habitat.
What is a niche?
This biome has the highest level of biodiversity and rainfall.
What is the tropical rainforest?
A carbon reservoir that stores more carbon than it releases is known as this. Also: name the largest one in the world.
What is a carbon sink? The Oceans.
This is the main nitrogen reservoir on Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
This type of symbiosis benefits only one species, while harming the other.
What is parasitism?
This aquatic biome is so large that even though it has the lowest productivity/area it produces a lot of earth's O2 and absorb a lot of atmospheric CO2.
Open Ocean
Carbon enters the biotic world through these two processes.
What are photosynthesis and chemosynthesis?
Nitrogen fixation can be biotic or abiotic, serving to transform nitrogen into these two compounds.
What are ammonia and nitrates?
This type of symbiosis benefits only one species, without harming the other.
What is commensalism?
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 (coniferous forest)
This curve tracks atmospheric CO2 concentrations in Mauna Loa.
What is the Keeling Curve?
This step in the Nitrogen cycle features plants taking in Nitrates.
What is assimilation?
This type of competition results in increased overall species fitness.
What is INTRAspecific?
This biome is influenced by marine weather and dependent on fire.
What is Chaparral / Scrubland?
In addition to the burning of fossil fuels, these two processes also return carbon to the atmosphere.
What are cellular respiration and decay?
This step in the Nitrogen cycle returns it as a gas to the atmosphere.
What is denitirification?
This type of competition results in resource partitioning.
What is INTERspecific?
This biome is characterized by long dry seasons and is dominated by grasses, shrubs, and grazing animals.
What is Savanna?
This substance in the Earth sequesters carbon, and it cannot be burned as a fossil fuel.
What is limestone?
These two steps in the Nitrogen cycle involve decomposers.
What are ammonification and nitrification?