Productivity
The amount of available energy that moves up each trophic level (expressed as a percent)
What is 10%?
These are the 2 distinguishing factors in a biome.
What is temperature and precipitation?
True or false- one of the biggest causes of biodiversity loss in an ecosystem is due to human activity?
What is true?
What is 50 pounds?
What is answers vary?
This is the maximum temperature an ecosystem can reach in order to have the highest Net Primary Productivity.
What is 30C or 86F?
Biomes tend to converge around this all across the world.
What is latitude?
This determines the health of an ecosystem. The more you have, the healthier and more stable it is.
What is biodiversity?
This is how many years it would take one tree to sequester all the carbon dioxide you put into the atmosphere by driving a gas-powered vehicle for one year (on average 2500 lbs of CO2)
This is an organism that is not native or indigenous to a particular area and can often times have a negative impact on the natural ecosystem.
What is invasive species?
Besides temperature, this the other factor that increases an ecosystems Net Primary Productivity.
What is precipitation?
This biome covers about 30% of the Earth's terrestrial surface.
What is desert?
The number of members of species that can be supported in an ecosystem is knows as this.
What is carrying capacity?
These are the products of photosynthesis.
What is oxygen and sugar?
This is the term to describe the complicated relationship between all living and nonliving factors in an ecosystem and how they all impact each other.
What is interdependence?
This is the total amount of energy plants produce in an ecosystem.
What is Gross Primary Productivity?
This biome is known for its erratic rainfall and frequent fires.
This group of individuals operate on every trophic level and increase the NPP by bringing nutrients back to the soil.
What are decomposers?
This is the amount of carbon dioxide each whale pulls out of the atmosphere on average (and equals an economic value of $2 million)
What is 33 tons?
This mentality strives to maintain our natural resources for future generations to come.
What is sustainability?
These are the 2 ecosystems with the highest Net Primary Productivity (terrestrial and aquatic)
What is tropical rainforest and coral reef?
The biome that each of the following animals belong to are:
lion=
polar bear=
clown fish=
What is the savanna for lion, arctic tundra for polar bear, and coral reef for clown fish?
Provide an example of each type of symbiotic relationship:
mutualism:
commensalism:
parasitism:
Trees found near this area of the planet sequester the most amount of carbon dioxide.
What is the equator?
True or false: animals typically live longer in captivity than they do in the wild.
What is true?