What is a niche?
An organism's role in their environment
List 3 environmental abiotic factors.
Sun, precipitation, oxygen, rocks, soil, etc.
What does a food chain always have to start with?
What is the only way to remove carbon dioxide from the environment?
Photosynthesis
Plants take in __ and give off ___:
carbon dioxide / oxygen
What is a pioneer species
The first organism to colonize a new area
What are 3 environmental impacts of our biomes?
How much energy is available for the next trophic level? What is the other energy lost as?
10% and lost as heat
There is a puddle because the cat probably knocked over the cup: is an observation, inference, hypothesis, theory.
inference
What do each of the following mean:
evaporation
condensation
precipitation
runoff
Evaporation: liquid to gas
condensation: gas to liquid
precipitation- falling liquid
runoff- movement of water on the ground
Where would we find: biosphere, atmosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere.
Biosphere- planet earth
Atmosphere- air
Geosphere- ground
Hydrosphere- water
What is tropical rainforest
give one energy interaction in this food web:
answer will vary
mutual: :) :)
parasitic: :) :(
commensalism: :) :I
predation: :) :(
What is the building block of a protein?
Amino Acid
Soil vs no soil
primary takes longer
This biome has the 4 seasons and average rainfall.
What is grassland or deciduous forest.
How do producers make their own food?
The sun
How does pouring chemicals down a storm drain affect the water cycle?
Pollutes every thing.
What is the difference between transcription and translation.
L- reads rna to make a protein
What is an invasive species and why are they harmful?
A non-native organism that doesn't have any predators so they take over the food chain.
Why is biodiversity important?
It increases variety and response to environmental changes
Explain how pesticides and chemicals move up the food chain.
What is the small animals eat it, then they get eaten and it is in their body, and it keeps moving up, until it is eaten by an apex predator.
What would be a limiting factor for a population?
Food, space, water, predators
When ATP is used, the P leaves turning ATP into
ADP