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This is a species’ role in its ecosystem.
What is an Niche?
A given food web includes hawks, grasses, foxes, and rabbits. This organism is a primary consumers in
this food web.
What is Rabiits?
This is the study of how living things interact with each other and with their environment.
What is Ecology?
An area that is saturated with or covered by water for at least one season of the year is this.
What is a wetland
These factors are the nonliving aspects of the environment.
What is abiotic factors?
The atmosphere, living things and the ocean are all considered this in the water cycle.
What is a resivoir?
This is the part of the world where Biodiversity is usually greater...
What is by the equator?
The physical environment in which a species lives and to which it is adapted is this.
What is habitat?
The top 200 meters of a body of water is known as the this zone.
What is the photic zone?
Most food chains have this many trophic levels.
A necessary link between autotrophs and carnivores is filled by this.
What is herbivores?
Higher trophic levels of a food web generally have this.
What is larger organisms?
Organisms that consume both plants and animals are referred to as this.
What is omnivore?
An underground layer of rock that stores water is called this.
What is an Aquifer
These tiny animals can't swim through ocean water but rely on the ocean for movement.
What are plankton?
Which type of biome occurs at high latitudes and high altitudes?
What is tundra?
While some autotrophs are different in how they create their food what is common between all autotrophs?
What is they require energy to make their own food?
The base of all food webs consists of this.
What is Autotrophs or producers?
These are aquatic organisms that live at the bottom of a body of water.
what are Benthos?
This type of ocean water dissolves carbon from the atmosphere.
What is cold ocean water?
The rain shadow occurs on this.
What is the leeward side of the mountian range?
Breathing, making cement and burning fossil fuels are all human action that do this.
What is release CO2 into the atmosphere.
This occurs when ice and snow change directly to water vapor.
What is sublimation?
The process of changing nitrogen gas to nitrates is called this.
What is nitrogen fixation?
This is the average weather in an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
Describe how energy flows through ecosystems.
Energy flows through ecosystems from sunlight or chemicals to producers, who use the energy to make organic
molecules, and from producers to consumers, who get energy by eating producers or other consumers. Finally,
decomposers get energy by breaking down dead organisms or the wastes of living things.
Give an overview of the carbon cycle.
Flowing water dissolves carbon in sedimentary rock and carries it to the ocean, which may store it for thousands
of years. Warm ocean water releases carbon into the atmosphere. Carbon also enters the atmosphere from organisms,
which release carbon from cellular respiration and decomposition. Volcanic eruptions and human actions such as
burning fossil fuels release carbon into the atmosphere as well. The atmosphere stores carbon as carbon dioxide.
Autotrophs remove carbon from the atmosphere to make organic molecules. Cold ocean water also dissolves carbon
from the atmosphere. Sediments from dead organisms form fossil fuels or carbon-containing rocks that store carbon
for millions of years.
Explain why the distinguishing features of terrestrial biomes are determined mainly by climate
The distinguishing features of terrestrial biomes are determined mainly by climate because plants are the major
producers in terrestrial biomes. Plants need air, warmth, sunlight, water, and nutrients. How well these needs are
met in a given location depends on growing season and soil quality, both of which are determined mainly by climate