Succession
What is a climax community?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
The form of energy used by autotrophs for photosynthesis to make chemical energy (glucose).
What is light (what is the sun)?
Population grows fast over time without any limit creating a J shaped curve on a population growth graph.
What is exponential growth?
What is a temperate deciduous forest?
What is habitat loss?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Begins with a lifeless environment. Lichens must break rock to create soil!
What is primary succession?
What is mutualism?
The maximum number of organisms an ecosystem can support based on available resources and space.
What is the carrying capacity?
Lots of rain, warm temperatures all year, and the highest biodiversity.
What is a tropical rainforest?
Often the first step to protect a threatened or endangered species.
What is legal protection? (What is a law?)
The first organisms to come to an area.
What is a pioneer species?
The hawk.
grass -> mouse -> snake -> hawk
What is a tertiary consumer?
A volcano erupts and kills all species in a 3 km radius.
What is a density-independent factor?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Very little rain, permafrost which inhibits plant growth, the least amount of biodiversity.
What is a tundra?
A declining population that is at risk for extinction.
What is endangered?
The nutrients, like nitrogen and phosphorus, found in fertilizer cause an algae bloom leading to the death of a lake and increasing the rate at which solid land forms.
What is eutrophication?
The cow stirs up bugs for the egrets to eat. The egrets get food, the cow is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
Double Jeopardy!
Lynx starve when their population gets so large that they deplete the rabbit population.
What is a density dependent factor?
A biome with cold temperatures, moderate rainfall, and lots of coniferous trees.
What is a taiga?
What is an invasive species?
A climax community experiences a disturbance. Soil is already present. Regrowth begins with small, fast growing plants.
What is secondary succession?
There is 1,000 kg of biomass of wildflowers in a field that are often consumed by groundhogs.
wildflowers -> groundhogs -> coyote
These wildflowers support 10 kg of biomass at the secondary consumer.
What is the rule of 10?
Organisms with small body size, mature early in life, have lots of offspring, do NOT care for their young, and often die due to changes in seasons.
What is rapid life history pattern?
The order of biomes from the north pole to the equator.
What is a tundra, taiga, temperate deciduous forest, grassland, desert, and tropical rainforest?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
These connect fragmented pieces of land to help increase the total land area for wild animals.
What is a habitat corridor?