About the big ol' globe
Gases that you should thank for making earth warm enough to inhabit.
What are greenhouse gases?
An organisms job description and other factors required for this organism to do its job.
What is a niche?
This biome is by far the saltiest and easiest to swim in.
What is the marine biome?
An interaction with a species that benefits you only, and does nothing negative to the other species.
What is commensalism?
The action certain butterflies take to look like more poisonous butterflies.
What is mimicry?
A sphere of earth you could swim in at least part of.
What is the hydrosphere?
An ecosystem is a system comprised of these two factors interacting.
What are abiotic and biotic factors?
A biome near the equator you might like to visit to see a dart frog.
What is a topical rainforest?
Me and my friend are both running a long distance on slippery ground. My friends stride is much longer, she has more stamina, and she has shoes with a lot of traction. These factors make her better suited to this niche of running. I of course, fall behind because I'm less suited to this niche.
What is competitive exclusion?
The type of consumer a dragon that ate a unicorn that ate a golden apple is.
What is a secondary consumer?
If you were a chef and you ate more food than you produced, you and this answer have something in common.
What is a carbon sink?
The measurement one could use to express an ecological footprint.
What is an earth equivalent?
There is a reason not a lot of humans live in these two extreme biomes.
What are the desert and tundra biomes?
If I were to compare 20 bees to 3 ducks I would be noting THIS diversity-governed factor
What is relative species abundance?
When a severe disturbance occurs such as a fire, flood, or hurricane, this may cause the vegetation to regress to how it was primarily. Usually wiping out all of it.
What is secondary succession?
Evaporation from the ocean, to condensation in the air, to precipitation are steps within this cycle that circulates water on earth.
What is the hydrologic cycle?
The ecosystem process by which species abundance in a community change over time.
The region of earths surface defined by its unique climatic and ecological features (biome) that we are in currently.
What is a temperate deciduous forest biome?
Let’s say I’m a unicorn and I want to eat golden apples. I eat as many as I want off the trees, and when I’ve eaten all of those I eat the saplings of new golden apple trees. The only things that could stop me were dragons and they died years ago! When the dragons kept the ecological community I live in balanced by stopping me from eating all the golden apple trees the dragons were THIS type of species.
What is a keystone species?
Looking at a messy ball of yarn vs looking at the specific threads could be compared to these two ways of tracking who eats who in ecological communities.
What is the food chain and food web?
If I were warm air in the atmosphere helping with weather patterns, I could be found in one of these.
What are convection cells?
Metabolic heat is lost at each step of the food chain or trophic level represented in this chart.
What is an energy pyramid?
What you would say if you were to step outside and didn’t want to say “nice weather were having”. Instead you wanted to sing the praises of how the atmosphere has been behaving for the past few years and NOT the conditions of the atmosphere over a short period of time.
What is climate?
Jeffrey, who I’ve never actually seen or met, keeps buying my favorite type of cookie that I’ve almost exclusively eaten until now. This makes both of us have to try harder to get the cookies.
What is exploitative competition?
If you were a tree with your lovely group of tree friends all hanging out on a piece of land for thousands of years after your great great great great tree grandparents washed up there and took root, you would be an example of this type of community.
What is a climax community?