Introduction
A natural resource which is formed more slowly than we use it such as natural gas.
What is nonrenewable?
Humans are a part of this sphere.
What is the biosphere?
Which species will have a lower population level, mice or fox?
What is a fox?
A person holding a sign during a protest.
What is an environmentalist?
This type of succession is faster.
What is secondary succession?
A replenishable resource.
What is renewable?
All of the rock on and below Earth's surface.
What is the geosphere?
Predator-prey relationships are this type of feedback loop.
What is negative?
A change in state where water returns to Earth's surface and changes from a vapor to a liquid.
What is condensation?
When energy is transferred between trophic levels only __?__ percent is passed on.
These are well respected and only published after a rigorous evaluation process which involves feedback from multiple sources.
What is peer-reviewed?
The thinnest layer of Earth's geosphere.
What is the crust?
If predators, parasites and competitors are present in an area, a species is unlikely to become __?__, meaning harms native species.
What is invasive?
A landslide causes part of a mountainside to fall away, leaving only bare rock. This area will experience...
What is primary succession?
An organism's surroundings including forests, people and buildings.
What is the environment?
Because it can dissolve many other molecules, water is also known as...
What is the universal solvent?
This layer supports plate tectonics.
What is the asthenosphere?
After a species is newly reintroduced, they experience exponential growth. Eventually the population will reach carrying capacity and the growth will slow. What is this new pattern called?
What is logistic growth?
All living things and their physical environment.
What is an ecosystem?
The amount of living tissue. Grass has the most, owls have less.
A human-centered view.
The lithosphere is carried on a softer, but still firm, layer of rock called the...
What is the asthenosphere?
"A successful organism possesses adaptive traits and is able to pass those traits on to numerous offspring which then reproduce."
The maximum number of organisms an area can sustain, determined by limiting factors.
What is carrying capacity?
One species eats bamboo stalks, another eats bamboo shoots, and one species eats leaves.
What is resource partitioning?