Ecosystem Interactions
This is the word for something in an ecosystem that is not living.
What is abiotic?
Succession occurs when one ______________ replaces another ______________ over time.
What is community?
This process would cause water in a lake to become more shallow.
What is evaporation?
A lanternfly is an example of this type of species.
What is an invasive species?
Exponential growth occurs when resources are ___________.
What is abundant?
This is the name for a group of organisms in the same place that can interbreed.
What is a population?
This type of succession might begin with glacial retreat.
What is primary succession?
These are two ways that carbon enters the atmosphere.
What are respiration, combustion, and decomposition?
Taking too much of a natural resource is called this.
What is overexploitation?
This is an example of a disturbance that might initiate secondary succession.
What is a forest fire, deforestation, hurricane, human development, etc...)
These are things that set the carrying capacity.
What are limiting factors?
Secondary succession begins with this.
What is a disturbance?
Humans take in carbon using this process.
What is ingestion?
What is the atmosphere?
These are the three types of heterotroph.
What are herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores?
This type of growth occurs when there are finite resources.
What is logistical growth?
Fast growing trees appear in this stage of succession.
What is intermediate species?
These organisms are important for carrying out processes in the nitrogen cycle.
What are bacteria?
An excess of this nutrient in our oceans causes ocean acidification.
What is carbon?
This is the name for an organism's role in the environment that helps it survive.
What is a niche?
This type of organism can get energy from any trophic level.
What is a decomposer?
Moss and lichen create the first _________ in an ecosystem.
What is soil?
These are the two ways nitrogen fixation can occur.
What are lightening and bacteria?
Eutrophication is caused by an excess of this nutrient.
What is nitrogen?
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