Just the Facts
The environment in which a species normally lives
What is a habitat?
Autotrophs exist at this trophic level
What are producers?
This pair moves and flows through an ecosystem
What are matter and energy?
DAILY DOUBLE
The number of primary categories of biome
What is 5?
How an ecosystem changes over time
What is succession?
These slow down the growth of a population as it reaches carrying capacity
What are limiting factors?
The process by which plants make food
What is photosynthesis?
DAILY DOUBLE
This is the process of converting nitrogen into more complex molecules
What is assimilation?
The dispersion of sunlight as it reaches the globe
What is insolation?
Growth in an area where soil is well established but vegetation has been removed
What is secondary succession?
This contest for resources occurs between members of the same species
What is intraspecific competition?
These organisms secrete enzymes to break down material
What are decomposers?
The living mass of an organism
What is biomass?
This biome is typified by high-salinity soils
What is a desert?
DAILY DOUBLE
Succession in water
What is hydrosere?
Another word for symbiosis
What is mutualism?
DAILY DOUBLE
From small to large, this structure provides a quantitative look at energy availability
What is an ecological pyramid?
The conversion of energy into biomass over time
What is productivity?
This is given off or taken up as water moves from state to state
What is latent heat?
The final stage of primary succession
What is the climax community?
DAILY DOUBLE
This term from chaos theory refers to small changes that lead to seemingly unrelated events that are unpredictable
What is the butterfly effect?
This amplified term describes a build-up of toxins from multiple sources
What is biomagnification?
This measure includes food eaten minus fecal loss
What is Gross Secondary Productivity (GSP)
This model provides an explanation for air circulation
What is the tricellular model?
As succession progresses, species diversity does this
What is increase?