Biomes
The most diverse biome.
What is a Tropical Rainforest?
The part of the earth that contains all ecosystems.
What is a Biosphere?
A nonliving thing in an ecosystem.
What is an abiotic factor?
The difference between the structures of a food chain and a food web.
What is a food chain follows one straight line and a food web is a network that includes many intersecting chains?
Carrying capacity.
What is the maximum population size of a species that a specific environment can sustain indefinitely?
The biome we are in.
What is a Temperate Forest?
The level directly below the biome but above community.
What is an ecosystem?
Unlike a habitat this describes an organisms specific "job" or role within its Ecosystem, including what is eats and when its active.
What is a niche?
The 10% rule.
What is the percent of energy travelling from one trophic level to the next?
This term describes the number of individuals of a single species living in a specific unit of area volume.
What is population density?
A Tundra.
What is a cold biome covered in permafrost?
Hawk, snake, bison, prairie dog, grass, stream, rocks, and air are apart of.....
What is a Ecosystem?
The release of water vapor from plants into the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
Biomass is measured in.
What is grams?
The difference between exponential growth and logistic growth.
What is exponential growth is unlimited growth vs. logistic growth which is limited growth?
Covering roughly 75% of Earth's surface, this is the largest of all biomes and is divided into freshwater and marine categories.
What is the aquatic biome?
A group of ecosystems that share similar climates and typical organisms.
What is a biome?
Photosynthesis and cellular respiration are the two main biological processes that drive this cycle.
What is the carbon cycle?
What is biological magnification?
These type of species have few offspring but provide high parental care, usually staying near their carrying capacity.
What are k-selected species?
A place that is in the Chaparral biome.
What is Italy, California, Chile, Southwest Australia, Greece, or Southern France?
All of the levels of organization in order.
What is individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere?
Limiting factors that act regardless of the population in an area.
What is density-independent factors?
Decomposers contribute to the nutrient cycle in an ecosystem.
What is breaking down dead organic matter and waste into simple inorganic materials?
These types of limiting factors such as competition and disease, have an increasing impact on a population as its density rises.
What are density-dependent factors?