Cycles & Ecosystems
Precipitation, transpiration and evaporation are all parts of this cycle.
What is the water cycle?
Consumers that eat both plants and animals
What are omnivores?
Type of relationship in which both organisms benefit
What is mutualism?
process of gradual, natural change and species replacement that takes place in communities of an ecosystem over time
What is succession?
warm, humid and rainy biome
What is the rainforest?
Process that allows carbon dioxide to enter the biotic parts of the biosphere
What is photosynthesis?
What is the producer level?
Type of relationship in which only one organism benefits
What is commensalism?
An organism’s particular role in its habitat, or how it makes its living
What is a niche?
Biome that receives less than 25 cm of rain per year
What is the desert?
Anything that limits an organisms ability to live in a particular environment
What is a limiting factor?
What are scavengers?
Type of relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed
What is parasitism?
series of changes that occurs after a disturbance in an existing ecosystem
What is secondary succession?
forests loose their leaves
The specific role an organism plays within its ecosystem
What is a niche?
Two major parts that make up a food web
trophic level and food chain
All the different populations that live together in an area
What is a population?
The first species to populate an area where primary succession is taking place
What is a pioneer species?
Cold and dry biome
What is the Tundra?
What are death and decay?
The amount of energy that is transferred to each trophic level
What is 10%
mutualism, parasitism and commensalism are examples
What is symbiosis?
a stable ecosystem that represents the final stage of ecological succession in a given climate and geography
What is a climax community?
soil that is frozen all year in the tundra
What is permafrost?