Unit 1-2
This includes nonliving factors like temperature, soil, and precipitation that help determine a biome.
What are Abiotic Factors
______________makes up all the members of a particular species that live in the same area.
Population
Both organisms benefit in this type of interaction: Ex ants eat the flowers to get food, then pollen the flowers to fertilize
MUTUALISM
While consumers must eat to survive, the food web begins with producers who use this process to convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into chemical energy.
What is Photosynthesis
This process converts a rock into any other type of rock
The Rock Cycle
This biome is located 23.5° North and South of the equator.
Plants consist of: Oat, foxtail, ryegrass, grasses, purple needle grass.
Animals consists of: Tigers, lions, zebra, rhino, and elephant.
Grassland
All populations of lions, elephants, zebras in a grassland biome is characterized as
What is a community
One organism benefits, the other is unaffected
A bird rides on a cow
Commensalism
If a primary consumer population suddenly decreases, this trophic level would most directly lose a major energy source
Secondary Consumer
The theory that all continents were once apart of a giant supercontinent, but drifted apart millions of years ago.
Continental Drift Theory
A biome with coniferous trees, long winters, and moderate precipitation would most likely be classified as this biome.
What is a Taiga
All populations of elephants, lions, zebra, plus weather and precipitation in a biome is referred to as
What is an ECOSYSTEM
In a food chain where a grasshopper eats a plant and a frog then eats the grasshopper, the frog is acting as this type of consumer.
Secondary Consumer
In a desert ecosystem, a rattlesnake occupies this position when it eats a kangaroo rat but is then eaten by a red-tailed hawk.
Secondary Consumer
This feature forms when groundwater is superheated near volcanic activity, causing it to erupt intermittently as boiling water and steam.
Geyser
If precipitation in a grassland significantly decreased over time, this biome would most likely form instead.
What is a Desert
This type of species are vulnerable to endangerment in the near future ( Rhinoceros,Tortoise)
Threatened
Medical leeches are often used by doctors to help drain blood from a wound, but because the worm benefits while the human host is fed upon, the relationship is biologically classified as this.
Parasitism
Because only about 10% of energy transfers between trophic levels, organisms at this level have the least available energy.
Tertiary Consumers (or last)
These violent, rotating columns of air often form when cold, dry air moving south from Canada collides with warm, moist air traveling north from the Gulf of Mexico
What is a tornado
This is a common characteristic of both desert and tundra biomes, due to lack of available surrounding water supplies
What is low precipitation/dry air
This type of non-native organism can outcompete native species for resources, often reducing biodiversity.
Invasive Species
A moss species grows densely on the bark of an old-growth tree in a shaded rainforest. The moss gains moisture and elevation for sunlight, while the tree’s growth, health, and nutrient flow remain unchanged.
Commensalism
If a group of producers starts with 7,000 Joules of energy, according to the 10% rule, this is the amount of energy—in Joules—that would actually reach a tertiary consumer.
This weather ( Front) boundary occurs when a dense, cool air mass slides under a warm air, often triggering a narrow band of violent thunderstorms, and short, but heavy precipitation.
What is a Cold Front