Aquatics
Animals that swim freely through the water (includes fish, squid, turtles, frogs, water snakes, and aquatic mammals.
What are Amphibians
Describes the mutually beneficial interaction between certain tree species and fungi, where the fungus aids the tree in nutrient absorption, while the tree provides the fungus with sugars.
What is Symbiotic Relationship
This soil texture is likely to have the highest porosity
What is Clay
Programs offered by the Department of Agriculture such as the "Wetland Reserve Program" and "Forest Stewardship Program" utilize what type of habitat management practice?
What is Conservation
What holds more carbon dioxide than the atmosphere?
What is Soil
Legislation that protects species of plants and animals that are in danger of extinction.
What is the Endangered Species Act
The part of a tree that protects the tree from pests, diseases, etc.
What is Bark
This group of soil organisms has the greatest overall biomass.
What is Fungi
A large neighborhood is being built on a 3000-acre stream forest site. Homes are being built in multiple sections of the stream forest, a soccer field on another, and a grocery store, gym, and eating establishments on another. Some wooded areas will be kept with winding roads passing through them. What term describes what will happen to this habitat that negatively impacts wildlife?
What is Fragmentation
This is released into the atmosphere when grasslands are converted into agricultural land.
What is Carbon Dioxide
The average % salinity in the world's oceans.
What is 3.5%
Wildfires are mainly influenced by these three factors.
What is Weather, Topography, and Vegetation.
Plants cannot take up nutrients directly from organic matter. Nutrients from organic matter are released by microbial activity through this process.
What is Mineralization
This term describes animals that are most active during the dawn and dusk hours.
What is Crepuscular
The percentage of corn produced in the United States that is genetically engineered
What is 88%
Access to clean, fresh water is a vital need for every human being, but there is a global shortage of potable water. According to some speculations, how much of the world's population may be living in water-stressed areas by 2025?
What is 50%
An organism capable of growing on bare sites (such as newly exposed soil or rock surfaces) and persisting there until supplanted by successor species.
What is a Pioneer Species
Rainwater has a pH of 5.7 because it is in equilibrium with this.
What is Carbon Dioxide
This ecological process refers to the concentration of toxic substances, such as pesticides or heavy metals, as they move up the food chain, posing a threat to top predators.
What is Biomagnification
The practice of leaving a crop un-harvested as part of a planned rotation to provide conservation benefits to the soil.
What is a Cover Crop
Besides filtering pollutants, list 3 other important ecological functions provided by wetlands.
What is Carbon Sequestration, Habitat, and Flood Prevention.
Used by foresters to assess tree age and growth rates, this specialized tool extracts a small cylindrical core from a tree trunk without causing significant harm.
What is an Increment Borer
The smell of newly plowed soil is due to the volatile organic compound Geosmin. Geosmin is produced by which soil organism?
What is Actinomycete
Areas of vegetation along streams and rivers that help remove pollutants before they enter the water body and provide corridors, cover, and food for wildlife and cool the water, and provide dead leaves for the base food for macroinvertebrates.
What is Riparian Areas
The application of ecological concepts and principles to the sustainable design and management of farms and food systems that balance economic viability, environmental resource management, and societal concerns.
What is Agroecology