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This biome is categorized by low rain fall, cold winters, and hot summers, and low vegetation.
What is a desert biome
Ecology.
What is the study of interactions among organisms and their environment?
How does photosynthesis contribute to ecology?
It makes food for producers
This type of organism is found at the bottom of the energy pyramid.
Plants/Producers
When water is released through rain or snow in the water cycle
What is precipitation?
The process in the water cycle that forms clouds
What is condensation
Autotroph.
what is an organism that can produce its own food?
Do Tor F Energy is passed down through tropic levels?
False
What type of animals eat only animals?
Carnivores
Microscopic photosynthetic algae that live in oceans and bodies of water.
Phytoplankton
When birth rate = death rate a population behaves this way.
No growth
Define niche.
The role, or way of life of a species within its environment.
Disease is an example of this type of limiting factor
Density dependent
What type of organism eats plants and animals?
Omnivore
How is a food chain different than a food web??
A food chain consists of fewer organisms and less biodiversity than a food web.
Emigration
A feature that controls the growth of a population
What is a limiting factor
The highest level of a consumer in an ecosystem
Tertiary or Quaternary consumer
If there are 5,000 kCals of energy at trophic level 2, this much energy is available for trophic level 4
50 kCals
True or False only Animals use cellular respiration
False
The distribution pattern where organisms are packed closely together in groups
Clumped
The maximum number of individuals an environment can support; when a population exceeds this, resources become limited, slowing growth
What is Carrying capacity
A biome classified by lush tree canopies and found along the equator.
Tropical Rainforests.
This trophic level is occupied by secondary consumers
Trophic level 3
The process where water vapor leaves the leaves of plants and trees
Transpiration