Biogeography
Biogeography Comparing
Energy Flow in Ecosystems
Cycles of Matter
100
Means of dispersal
What are wind, water, and other living organisms?
100
A diagram that shows how much energy is available at each feeding level in an ecosystem is...
What is an energy pyramid?
100
The three main processes of the water cycle are
What are evaporation, condensation, and precipation?
200
A species that is carried into a new location by people is called a(n) _____
.
What is exotic species?
200
A consumer that only eats plants
What is a herbivore?
200
The process that is responsible for the water on the window and explain.
What is condensation; water vapor in the air condenses on the window?
300
The study of where organisms live is called
What is biogeography?
300
The difference between weather and climate is...
What is weather is the day-to-day conditions in an area, and climate is the typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time?
300
Consumers and producers living in aquarium are...
turtles and plants/ferns
300
A group of organisms that is a source of oxygen in the oxygen cycle.
What are producers, they release oxygen as a result of photosynthesis?
400
The movement of organisms from one place to another is called...
What is dispersal?
400
Describe three ways plant seeds are dispersed by other organisms.
What are an organism may eat fruit containing the seeds and deposit them somewhere else in its wastes; seeds with burs can stick to another organism and be carried someplace else; humans may carry plant seeds into a new area, either intentionally or accidentally?
400
The difference between a food chain and food web are
What is a food chain shows only one path of energy flow, and a food web shows several food chains?
400
Describe the roles of producers and consumers in the carbon cycle
What are producers use carbon dioxide to produce food (carbon compounds) via photosynthesis, and consumers break down food and release carbon dioxide as a waste product?
500
The very slow movement of the continents is called...
What is continental drift?
500
Competition limits the dispersal of organisms by...
What are when organisms enter a new area, they must compete for resources with existing species, and if the existing species are thriving, they may outcompete the new organisms?
500
If all the nitrogen-fixing bacteria disappeared, then this would happen...
What is free nitrogen from the air would not be changed into a form that other organisms could use and organisms would die?