Carrying Capacity
Earth Systems
Bio Geo Chemical Cycles
Energy and Matter in Ecosystems
Biomes
100

This is the maximum organisms an ecosystem can hold.


limiting factor, maximum capacity, carrying capacity, threshold

What is a carrying capacity?

100

This is an example of a carbon source.


plants, animals, photosynthesis, cellular respiration, fossil fuels, temperature, climate

What is cellular respiration?

What is burning fossil fuels?

What is tilling soil?

100

This model shows this cycle.

phosphorus, neon, nitrogen, carbon, water

What is the nitrogen cycle?

100

A classification of energy and matter flowing through an ecosystem is recorded in this.

What is a food web?
What is a food pyramid?
What is a food chain?

100

This area is characterized by hot days, cold nights, little precipitation, and a low carrying capacity.


desert, taiga, tundra, tropical, temperate, wetland, river, estuary

What is a desert?

200

These factors can limit the number of organisms that can live in an ecosystem.

What are limiting factors?

What are density dependent factors? (predation, disease)

What are density independent factors? (climate, fires)

200

This is created and amplified with a low pressure system, high sea surface temperatures, and no land to shear the winds.

What is a hurricane?
What is a cyclone?

200

This model shows this.

phosphorus, neon, nitrogen, carbon, water

What is the phosphorus cycle?

200

The direction the arrow points indicates this about energy.


matter flow, energy flow, the organism that eats the other, an increase in energy

Where does the energy flow?


200

This forest is characterized by seasonal weather, moderately average precipitation, and a high carrying capacity.


desert, taiga, tundra, tropical, temperate, wetland, river, estuary

What is a temperate forest?

300

This is the relationships that benefits both organisms.


mutualism, parasitism, predation, competition, commensalism

What is mutualism?

300

This is an example of a carbon sink.


plants, animals, photosynthesis, cellular respiration, fossil fuels, temperature, climate

What is photosynthesis?

What are plants?

What is the soil?


300

This model shows this

phosphorus, neon, nitrogen, carbon, water

What is the water cycle?

300

The lion is this type of consumer


producer, heterotroph, autotroph, primary consumer, tertiary consumer, secondary consumer

What is a secondary consumer?

300

This forest is characterized by warm spring, warm fall, hot summers, and cool winters, high precipitation, high carrying capacities.


desert, taiga, tundra, tropical, temperate, wetland, river, estuary

What is a tropical forest.

400

This is the relationship that benefits one organism and harms another.


mutualism, parasitism, predation, competition, commensalism

What is predation? 

What is parasitism?

400

This describes what the atmospheric conditions are outside where we are.  This describes the atmospheric conditions of a regional area during a season. (2 questions)


weather, climate, temperature, climate change, global warming

What is weather? What is climate?

400

This model shows this.

phosphorus, neon, nitrogen, carbon, water

What is the carbon cycle?

400

The deer is this type of consumer.


producer, heterotroph, autotroph, primary consumer, tertiary consumer, secondary consumer

What is a primary consumer?

400

This area is characterized by cold days, cold nights, little precipitation, and a low carrying capacity.


desert, taiga, tundra, tropical, temperate, wetland, river, estuary

What is a tundra?

500

What is the relationships that harms both organisms?


mutualism, parasitism, predation, competition, commensalism

What is competition?

500

This describes that atmospheric changes in temperature and rainfall.  This describes the change in Earth's average temperature changes. (2 questions)


weather, climate, temperature, climate change, global warming

What is climate change? What is global warming/cooling?

500

These are the biogeochemical cycles disrupted by growing food.

What is the carbon cycle, water cycle, nitrogen cycle, and phosphorus cycle?

500

This organism generates all the energy in the food web.  Without it, ecosystems would fail.


producer, heterotroph, autotroph, primary consumer, tertiary consumer, secondary consumer

What is the grass?

What is the autotroph?

500

This area is characterized as inundated or saturated with water for a period of time through the year, it promotes high carrying capacities, sees freshwater, brackish water, and saline water, and is habitat to many migratory waterfowl species.


desert, taiga, tundra, tropical, temperate, wetland, river, estuary

What is a wetland?