Ecology
the study of the interaction between an organism and its environment?
What is Ecology?
Break down the word Biogeochemical
What is Life/Earth/Element
Organism that creates its own energy/food through photosynthesis
The scientific study of trees
What is Dendrology?
2 types of trees
What is coniferous, and deciduous
What is a Wetland?
The process by which green plants and algae convert sunlight into plant tissue using CO2 and Water
What is Photosynthesis?
an animal with no natural predators
What is an Apex predator?
Two zones of bark
What is outer and inner bark?
difference between deciduous and coniferous
the 5 different biomes
What is freshwater, marine, grassland, wetland, and forest?
The continuous movement of water through the biosphere
What is the water cycle?
A linear representation which shows the flow of energy from one organism to another
What is a food chain?
Purpose of roots
What is uptake of water minerals and oxygen, support system, transport water to the tree trunk
6 forest regions of the US
the 5 Ecological Levels
What are Biosphere, Ecosystems, Communities, Populations, and Organisms?
Begins during photosynthesis when plants release oxygen into the atmosphere.
What is the oxygen cycle?
Consists of many food chains interacting with one another in a community.
Explain how to estimate the age of a tree
Measure circumference, divide by pi, divide by 2, subtract 0.5 or 1, divide by average annual ring size
Entisols, ultisols, alfisols, inceptisols, and oxisols
What are forest soil types?
Gasses surrounding the earth from surface to space
What is the Atmosphere?
7 terms associated with the water cycle
What are evaporation, condensation, transpiration, accumulation, precipitation, surface run off and subsurface run off
Producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer, apex predator
Flattened lateral structures attached to a stem
What is a leaf?
the 7 forest biomes
What is boreal, temperate deciduous, temperate coniferous, temperate mixed, temperate broad leafed evergreen, tropical evergreen, and tropical deciduous?