What are the climate and communities which live there.
100
An area filled with water for all or part of the year.
What is wetlands
100
This type of system allows matter and energy to freely enter and leave the system.
What is an open loop system.
100
When one ecological community SLOWLY replaces another over time, this is an example of --.
What is succession.
100
This stage of the water cycle is characterized by gaseous water cooling and collecting into droplets.
What is condensation.
200
This biome is characterized by its cold temperatures, permafrost, and lack of trees
What is the tundra.
200
What is acting as a filter, as well as, preventing flooding and erosion a major benefit of?
Wetlands
200
The carbon cycle is an example of a closed loop system because...
What is no carbon leaves or enters the system.
200
Bare rock is at this start of this type of succession.
What is primary succession
200
Leaves change color and fall off trees in this biome.
What is deciduous forest.
300
This biome is characterized by its warm temperatures year round and high level of biodiversity.
What is the rainforest.
300
The three types of aquatic ecosystems.
What is marine, freshwater, and estuary.
300
All energy/mass cannot be created or destroyed creates these familiar scientific laws.
What are the laws of conservation.
300
When this happens, nutrients build up in a body of water, and there are some "dark" effects on the aquatic life in the area. (you are supposed to giggle at the above joke)
What is eutrophication.
300
When liquid water leaves the leaves of plants and rises into the sky in a gaseous form, this is an example of --.
What is transpiration.
400
A waxy coating, and long taproots are plant adaptations of this biome.
What is the desert.
400
Both marine and freshwater can be used for which activity- drinking, transport, or irrigation (watering plants)?
What is transport.
400
Combustion and cellular respiration are two different ways this element can reenter the atmosphere.
What is carbon.
400
This is the first organism to live in an uninhabited area.
What is a pioneer species.
400
If a sand crocodile, piranha, and small lizards are in the same ecosystem - which would be located at the top of the trophic pyramid?
What is crocodiles.
500
This biome has plants and animals with adaptations to survive and thrive in fires.
What is the grassland.
500
This marine zone can be characterized as perpetually dark, with high water pressure, and acidic seafloor vents.
What is abyssal zone?
500
The shape of a trophic pyramid represents the relative size of what two things?
What are the population and amount of energy.
500
After a volcano erupts, this type of succession will occur.