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Anyone Hungry?
Is it living?
Cycles Galore
Key Terms
Hodge Podge
100
This animal eats both meat and plants.
What is an omnivore?
100
Anything that is living or was once living.
What is a biotic factor?
100
This cycle shows us how water flows through our atmosphere.
What is the water cycle?
100
The maximum number of organisms that an area can support year after year.
What is carrying capacity?
100
This is going to be built on the campus of Kansas State University.
What is NBAF?
200
This consumer is considered the 2nd in line in a food chain behind producers and primary consumers.
What is a secondary consumer?
200
This is what we refer to as SWATS.
What are abiotic factors?
200
This cycle is directly tied to global warming.
What is the carbon cycle?
200
The struggle between two or more organisms for resources
What is competition?
200
This is the level which 10% of the NBAF facility will be labeled.
What is a BSL-4 lab?
300
Primary consumers eat these.
What is a producer?
300
How similar two or more ecosystems are
What is percent similarity?
300
Lightning helps put this back into the ground.
What is nitrogen?
300
Very rapid growth. Birth rate greatly outweighs death rate.
What is exponential growth?
300
This is your student teacher's name.
Who is Miss Moser?
400
This flows from producers to consumers.
What is energy?
400
Two species competing for the same resources cannot coexist if other ecological factors are constant
What is the Principle of Competitive Exclusion?
400
Sublimation is part of this cycle.
What is the water cycle?
400
This could be weather, predators, time...anything that puts a limit on the size of the population.
What is a limiting factor?
400
The United States federal research facility dedicated to the study of animal diseases. Located on an island by New York.
What is the Plum Island Animal Disease Center?
500
This is a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
What is a food web?
500
The higher this number, the more number of species present in a population
What is the diversity index?
500
Soils and organic matter as well as oil and gas deposits are part of this cycle.
What is the carbon cycle?
500
Number of a single species living in at ecosystem at one time.
What is a population?
500
In a food web, this is the most important type of organism.
What is a producer?