Vocab is my fav
The max amount a population can hold
What is the carrying capacity
Describes close, long-term interactions between different species
an organism's position in a food web, representing steps in the flow of energy and matter
Trophic levels
The first thing needed in the carbon cycle
What is carbon
The series of processes by which nitrogen and its compounds are interconverted in the environment and in living organisms
What is the nitrogen cycle
The factor a population needs to grow
What is the limiting resource
The type of symbiosis where both species benefit
What is mutualism
What are producers
This is currently disrupting the carbon cycle
What is humans!
The essential biological or industrial process of converting inert atmospheric nitrogen into reactive compounds making it useful for everyday life
What is nitrogen fixation
The nonliving factors in the environment
What are the abiotic factors
The type of symbiosis where one benefits and the other is not affected
What is commensalism
What level would you find herbivores on
What is primary consumers
This part of the carbon cycle takes Co2 out of the atmosphere and converts it to oxygen
What is photosynthesis
The process that converts ammonia to nitrite
What is nitrification
The living factors in the environment
What are the biotic factors
Th type of symbiosis where one benefits and the other is harmed
What is parasitism
What is the coyote
The breakdown of food to use for energy produces CO2 again, this is called what
What is respiration
The process that converts nitrate to nitrogen gas
What is dentrification
A community where living organisms (plants, animals, microbes) interact with each other and their non-living surroundings (air, water, soil, sunlight)
What is an ecosystem
Barnacles on whales is this type of symbiosis
What is commensalism
Say you had a tuna fish, shark, and human, the human would be this level
What is the tertiary level
When organisms die, _____ break them down, returning carbon to the soil, with some becoming fossil fuels over millions of years.
What are decomposers
When an organism excretes waste or dies, the nitrogen in its tissues is in the form of organic nitrogen
What is ammonification