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Ecosystems
Biological Communities
The Environment
Misc.
Misc.
100
A fox eating a rabbit.
What is a carnivore?
100
Wetlands, Marine or Freshwater.
What are examples of an aquatic biome?
100
When toxic chemicals move up the trophic levels becoming more concentrated as they go.
What is biological magnification?
100
The interaction between a robin and a cardinal for worms.
What is competition?
100
Mosquitoes feeding off of humans.
What is an example of parasitism?
200
The process by which plants return water to the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
200
Deciduous forest, Tundra, Desert.
What are an examples of a terrestrial biome?
200
Chemicals that when broken down destroy the ozone layer.
What CFC's?
200
Many different kinds of living organisms.
What is biodiversity?
200
A long term association between species.
What is symbiosis?
300
The process by which materials are passed from the non-living part of the environment through living organisms and back again.
What is a biogeochemical cycle?
300
The specific way an organism interacts with its environment.
What is a niche?
300
Porous rock reservoirs that hold ground water.
What are aquifers?
300
Ecosystems contain many groupings of living organisms.
What are communities?
300
Plant growth in an area where there has never been plant growth before.
What is primary succession?
400
If plants were removed from a food web.
What would cause a food web to collapse?
400
Regular progression of species replacement.
What is succession?
400
The warming of the Earth due to trapped atmospheric heat.
What is the greenhouse effect?
400
The back and forth evolution of flowers and the insects that feed on them.
What is coevolution?
400
Precipitation with low PH resulting from sulfur being emitted into the air.
What is acid rain?
500
An ecosytem contains many places where organisms live.
What is a habitat?
500
Determines which organisms live where,
What is climate?
500
Species, ground water and topsoil.
What are the three nonrenewable resources detroyed by farming and contruction.
500
Predicting consequences of environmental intervention.
What is Risk analysis?
500
The birth rate exceeding the death rate.
What is the reason the human population continues to grow?