Biomes
A biotic component of an ecosystem.
What is any living thing (fungi, bacteria, mice, elephants, termites, trees, grasses, etc.)?
A pea plant and cyanobacteria is an example of this symbiotic relationship.
What is mutualism?
Carbon cycle process involving water and the atmosphere.
What is Exchange?
Nitrogen Cycle step that converts ammonium to nitrites and nitrates.
What is Nitrification?
This is the rate of converting solar energy into organic compounds over a period of time.
What is primary productivity?
This marine biome has the highest biodiversity.
What is the coral reef biome?
This is when one organism lives in or on another organism.
What is parasitism?
This process of the carbon cycle would be considered fast carbon.
What is Photosynthesis?
Autotrophs taking macronutrients from soil into their tissues is part of this process.
What is Assimilation? (Both Nitrogen and Phosphorus cycles.)
These are the two main outputs that plants create when they photosynthesize.
What are simple sugars (glucose) and oxygen?
These biomes (aquatic/terrestrial) are characterized by dominant plant growth forms.
What are terrestrial biomes?
Like Predation, but instead of an animal being the prey, a plant is the prey.
What is herbivory?
Both plants and animals contribute to this Carbon Cycle process. (Could be more than one.)
What is Respiration? What is Burial?
A _______ nutrient is one that is required for the growth of an organism but available in lower quantities than other nutrients.
What is a limiting nutrient?
This is something that both plants and animals do, and it unlocks the energy of chemical compounds.
What is cellular respiration?
These are two things that a climate diagram tells us about an ecosystem.
Average precipitation and temperature over 12 months. With this information we can usually determine the biome as well.
Two species evolve to divide a resource based on differences in their behavior or morphology (the physical features of an organism).
What is resource partitioning?
List all 7 Carbon Cycle processes.
don't B CREEPS:
Burial, Combustion, Respiration, Exchange, Extraction, Photosynthesis, Sedimentation.
When water is low in oxygen, it is described in this way. (One word.)
What is hypoxic?
The amount of biomass present in an ecosystem at a particular time.
What is the ecosystem's standing crop?
This type of aquatic biome contains a mix of freshwater and salt water and thus has a very unique and biodiverse ecosystem.
What is the estuary biome?
This species interaction can hurt both species involved.
What is competition?
Calcium ions in the water combining with CO2 to form calcium carbonate is part of which carbon cycle process?
What is Sedimentation?
Describe some features of a dead zone (visible or not).
Algal blooms, hypoxic environment, high concentration of phosphorus, lack of biodiversity.
This establishes the rate at which biomass -- the total mass of all living matter in an ecosystem -- is produced over a given amount of time.
What is the ecosystem's net primary productivity?