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Biomes and Climate
Species Interactions
Chapter 1
Trophic Levels
Biogeochemical Cycles
100
the major orientation influence on earth's seasonality
What is the tilt of the planet/earth?
100
when the herbivore is the predator
What is herbivory?
100
considered to be the smallest unit of life
What is a cell?
100
the organism that gets most of its energy from detritus
What are decomposers/detritivores?
100
the percent of Earth's water that is conserved in glaciers or lakes/rivers/groundwater
What is 3%?
200
the terrestrial biome containing the biggest species richness
What is the tropical rainforest?
200
when a species is brightly colored as a means of defense
What is aposematic coloration?
200
the scientific study of life
What is biology?
200
the production level in which light energy is converted to chemical energy
What is primary production?
200
the location for the major carbon sinks on earth
What is underground?
300
the condition when the average temperature is so cold that the ground stays frozen essentially year long
What is permafrost?
300
the only (+/+) interaction where no intimate contact is required
What is facilitation?
300
they included Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya
What are domains?
300
the percent efficiency of the energy transferred between trophic levels
What is 10%?
300
the four primary molecules that occur in the atmosphere and cycle globally
What are carbon, oxygen, sulfur, and nitrogen?
400
the terrestrial, geographic area that mimics the littoral/photic zone of a lake
What is a basin wetland?
400
the region in n-dimensional space that describes everything about that environment
What is a niche?
400
the approach to studying biology that aims to model the dynamic behavior of the whole based on studying the interactions between its parts
What is systems biology?
400
the total amount of primary production occurring in an area from which nearly off it is derived from photosynthesis
What is gross primary production?
400
the only nutrient cycle that does not involve a gaseous state for that nutrient
What is the phosphorous cycle?
500
the growth curve that may be sustained for awhile but eventually must end due to (K)
What is exponential population growth?
500
the example of a community changing over time where the four stages of change (pioneer, dryas, alder, spruce) are present
What is primary succession?
500
the new characteristics that arise with each step upward in life's hierarchy
What are emergent properties?
500
the main phenomenon that causes heat to be lost at every trophic level
What is metabolism?
500
the only usable form of nitrogen for plants
What is nitrate (NO3-)