Ecosystems
What does Biotic mean?
What is a living, or previously living organism.
Definition of population
What is group of organisms of the same species in the same place at the same time ?
What effect are humans having on the long term carbon cycle?
What is combustion leads to warming and marine acidification.
Name the three main impacts humans have on the ecosystem
What is habitat destruction, disruption of the carbon cycle, and overuse of resources
Define a carrying capacity
What is the total population that can be surrounded by resources in a given ecosystem
What are the four major nutrient cycles?
What is Water, Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphorous
Name an effect of overuse of resources
What is starvation, dehydration, loss of energy form, or overcrowding
Name two abiotic factors.
What is Nutrients, Water, Soil, and Air
Immigration
What is it called when an organism moves out of an environment?
What process in the carbon cycle draws CO2 out of the air?
What is photosynthesis
How do humans disrupt the long-term carbon cycle?
What is burning fossil fuels
Which organism does not benefit in parasitism?
What is Host.
Name 4 if the 6 factors that influence the population size.
What is birth rate, death rate, immigration, emigration, growth rate, resource availibility
What organisms in the soil transform N2 into Ammonium and Nitrates?
What is Nitrogen-fixing bacteria
An animal that is introduced into a new environment that it is not native to.
What is an invasive species?
What is commensalism?
What is a relationship in which one species benefits and the other is not effected.
Explain why the same area can support a greater number of herbivores than carnivores.
There are more autotrophs than there are consumers, because of renewable resources.
uniform, clumped or random
What are types of population distribution?
An open system
The difference between renewable and nonrenewable energy.
What is fossil fuels compared to reusable options (example- solar)