A group of populations living and interacting in the same area
What is community?
100
these consumers get their food directly from the producers
What are herbivores or primary consumers?
100
These creatures have an incredible mutualistic relationship with sea anemones
What is clown fish?
100
Evaporation of water from leaves of a plant
What is the transpiration?
100
the process by which certain gases trap heat that would otherwise escape the earth and radiate into space
What is the greenhouse effect?
200
The study of the interactions between living and non living things
What is ecology?
200
tells us something about how much biological matter exists in a certain region
What is biomass?
200
The mutualistic relationship between the blind shrimp and the Goby
what is the Goby warns the Blind Shrimp about the presence of enemies and the Blind Shrimp provides protection for the Goby by digging a hole for it?
200
An ecosystem where all water runoff drains into a single body of water
what is watershed?
200
This is a phenomenon where some people are worried that the air is getting so rich in carbon dioxide that the greenhouse effect is becoming enhanced and the earth is already getting abnormally warm
What is global warming?
300
An association of living organisms and their physical environment
What is ecosystem?
300
A diagram that shows the biomass of organisms at each trophic level
What is ecological pyramid?
300
The mutualistic relationship is unique between the Oriental Sweetlips and the Blue-Streak Wrasse
what is the Blue-Streak Wrasse cleans the Orietnal Sweetlip’s teeth and the OS provides food for the BSW?
300
The physical processes that cause oxygen to be used up and replenished are collectively called this
What is the oxygen cycle?
300
If a tree does and slowly rots away, does this add carbon dioxide to it remove it from the air?
What is add carbon dioxide to the air?
400
A group of interbreeding organisms coexisting together
What is population?
400
Each Time energy moves up a trophies levels ——— is lost
What is a lot of that energy?
400
This example of mutualism would be the easiest to explain in terms of macroevolution.
What is the clownfish/sea anemone mutualistic symbiosis?
400
Phytoplankton and plants produce oxygen via photosynthesis and also use oxygen through this
What is respiration?
400
Name the primary way oxygen is replenished in the air.
What is photosynthesis?
500
A group of ecosystems classified by climate and plant life
What Biome?
500
They produce food for themselves and for other creatures
What is producers?
500
Examples are weather, temperature, chemicals in the ecosystem, the gases that the organisms breathe, the availability of water
what is physical environment?
500
This is a means by which water can leave an ecosystem in a watershed but not an ocean shore environment
What is the stream flow?
500
Watershed ecosystems play a vital role in the distribution of this throughout the earth.