Nutrient Cycling
This cycle involves photosynthesis and burning fossil fuels
What is the carbon cycle?
This term describe the most important specie in an ecocsystem
These are factors that can limit a carrying capacity
What are limiting factors?
This type of succession involves the presence of pioneer species
What is primary succession?
This characteristic of life means that living things can create offspring in sexual and asexual ways
What is reproduction?
This process involves nitrification, ammonification, and denitrification.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
This is the name of an organism that can produce it's own energy in an ecosystem (also known as a producer)
What is an autotroph?
This type of growth is characteristic of a 'j-curve'
What is exponential growth?
The range of ________ means what conditions an organism can live in
What is tolerance?
Viruses need this to 'reproduce'
What are host cells?
This process involves weathering and erosion
What is the phosphorus cycle?
When niches overlap, it creates this biotic, density-dependent factor that limits a carrying capacity
What is competition?
This is the term for the maximum amount of organisms that can live in a given area of land
What is the carrying capacity?
Little precipitation
Varying, extreme temperatures
What are deserts?
These are the two characteristics of life that viruses share with cells
What is containing genetic information and the ability to evolve?
This organisms are the most important organisms in the nitrogen cycle
What are bacteria?
This amount of energy would be available to a secondary consumer if the producers of an ecosystem created 1,000J of usable energy
What is 10J of energy?
This type of dispersion means that organisms are evenly distributed across a habitat
What is uniform dispersion?
Little precipitation
Cold temperatures
Plantlife is present as shrubs, ferns, and grasses
What is a taiga?
The level of organization between cell and organ
What is a tissue?
This is the name of the process for changing forms of nitrogen (example: changing gaseous nitrogen into solid, usable nitrogen)
What is fixing/fixation?
This term means that toxins accumulate in ecosystems in larger quantities as they move up food chains
What is biological magnification?
This is the population density for 10 organisms located in a 1x5 plot of land (measured in meters)
The biome that WE live in
What is a temperate deciduous forest?
All cells contain these four structures/organelles (both prokaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells)
What is a cell membrane, genetic material (DNA or RNA), ribosomes, and cytoplasm?