THE BASICS
Unit #4: Earth Systems
Unit #2: Ecosystems
Unit #1: Biodiversity
Unit #3: Populations
100
This term describes a group of individuals of the same species living in the same area.
What is a population?
100
Plate boundaries that are coming together
What are Convergent Boundaries?
100
Layer in an aquatic biome receives the most sunlight Choices: Euphotic, Disphotic, or Aphotic
What is Euphotic
100
Define species richness.
What is the # of different species in an area?
100
What the dashed line on this graph represents
What is Carrying Capacity (K)?
200
This level of ecological organization includes all living and nonliving components in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
200
Properties of soil include
What is texture, permeability, or porosity
200
Name two biomes that receive the least amount of rainfall
Tundra & Desert
200
Define species evenness.
What is the relative abundance or proportion of each species in the community?
200
Type of strategists bears are considered
What are K strategists ?
300
The amount of biological or living diversity per unit area. It includes the concepts of species diversity, habitat diversity and genetic diversity.
What is Biodiversity?
300
There are 3 major convection cells which start from the equator and move toward the poles, name one
What are
Hadley Cells
Ferrell Cells
or Polar Cells
300
Which biome does this Climatogram best represent?
What is Tropical Rainforest, warm temperatures and large amounts of rainfall in wet season?
300
Name the 3 primary types of Biodiversity
What are Genetic, Species, and Ecosystem?
300
Type of survivorship curve would fish have
What is Type III
400
the basic ecosystem processes, such as nutrient cycles and soil formation, that are needed to maintain other services
What is supporting ecosystem services?
400
Seasons are caused by this
What is the tilt of the earth's axis & the revolution around the sun?
400
Describe an adaptation an organism would need to have to survive in an intertidal zone.
What is
able to withstand different amounts of water &/or oxygen due to living where land meets water.
be able to attach to surfaces?
400
Describe an area in which secondary succession would occur.
What is an area where life has been before, but the ecosystem has been disrupted by a disaster. This leaves a soil layer behind for secondary succession to begin?
400
The demographic transition stage represented by this Age Structure Diagram
What is Stage 2, Transitional?
500
This factor has the greatest influence on TFR
What is educational opportunities for females
other influences include access to family planning (medical), gov. acts and policies
500
The layers of the atmosphere in order of closest to earth to furthest.
What are Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere?
500
Equation for Primary Productivity
What is
NPP = GPP - R ?
500
The 5 human impacts on biodiversity and the acronym which represents them all.
What is HIPPCO-
Habitat loss, Invasive Species, Pop Growth, Pollution, Climate Change, Overexploitation?
500
Issue that can result from the introduction of an invasive species.
What is disruption of the food chain, elimination of native species, problems with resource distribution?