Get Organized
The level of organization:
One member from the Western Lowland Gorilla species
Organism
Habitat or Niche:
The cottonmouth snake contributes to a community by controlling the number of rodents within it.
Niche
The arrows represent _________________ in a food chain.
Energy
A limiting factor for the coyote population in Virginia
Food Availability, Habitat Destruction, etc.
The process that brings carbon from the atmosphere into the community.
Photosynthesis
Biotic or Abiotic Factor:
Virus
Abiotic
The type of succession:
An underwater volcano produces small rock islands which are eventually colonized by pioneer organisms.
Primary
The level consumer of the wood duck:
Cattail --> Wood Duck --> Gray Fox --> Black Vulture
Primary Consumer
Invasive species can often find their habitat to have unlimited resources. This allows for ______________ growth.
Exponential
One process that returns carbon back into the atmosphere:
Combustion, Respiration
The biome presented:
The winter months cause a period of dormancy among tree species within the forests found here like oak and hickory. This causes some animals to migrate.
Deciduous Forest
The interaction between these populations:
A rhino and water buffalo are both consuming small bushes within Africa's plains.
Competition
The level consumer of the black vulture:
Cattail --> Wood Duck --> Gray Fox --> Black Vulture
Tertiary Consumer
Population Increasing or Decreasing:
Immigration > Emigration
Increasing
You may be advised to not eat a lot of fish from the Shenandoah River due to mercury pollution. This is because the mercury amounts in your body will increase after eating an organism with mercury in theirs through a phenomenon known as ___________________.
Biomagnification
The biome presented:
Caribou walk through massive coniferous forests during the swampy summer months in search of food.
Taiga
The interaction presented:
Leeches remove blood from a human's feet by attaching to them.
Parasitism
In a pyramid of numbers, which population would have the most members?
Cattail --> Wood Duck --> Gray Fox --> Black Vulture
Cattail
Population Increasing or Decreasing:
Death < Birth
Increasing
The process that turns atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia.
Nitrogen Fixation
The level of organization:
All birds within the shoreline
Community
The type of interaction between the lily pad and turtle.
A turtle swims atop a group of lily pads to bathe in the sun.
Commensalism
The amount of energy given to the gray fox:
Cattail (3829 kcal) --> Wood Duck --> Gray Fox --> Black Vulture
38.29 kcal
The type of limiting factor:
A bacterial disease wipes out 50% of the Eastern Hemlock population of the Shenandoah Valley.
Density-Dependent
Nitrification