Unit 1
List and describe the steps of the scientific method
Observe, Hypothesis, Experiment, Data, Conclusion
Identify the different types of consumers.
Producer / Primary Consumer / Secondary consumer / Tiertiary consumer
A large region characterized by a specific types of climate and certain types of plants and animal community is known as a________________________.
Biome
What is carrying capacity?
The max number of population that the ecosystem can support
Food, space, competition
Tropical Rain Forest
Define Environmental Science.
Study of Human impact on the environment
Identify the major biogeochemical cycles.
Carbon / Nitrogen / Phosphorus
What determines an ecosystems climate?
Temperature and Precipitation
When might an organisms encounter exponential growth?
No competition, plenty of space, and plenty of food
largest terrestrial biome, known as coniferous forest, short, wet summers and long, cold winters
Taiga
The process of how species changing genetically in response to long to long-term interactions with each other is called?
C0-Evolution
Use the food chain to identify the organisms by the different levels of consumers.
Producer > Primary > Secondary> Tertiary consumers
What causes eutrophication?
Agricultural fertilizers are one of the main human causes runoff
What determines the growth rate of a population?
Birth rate minus death rate
high temperatures in summer; greater evaporation than precipitation usually exacerbated by high temperatures, strong winds and lack of cloud cover
Desert
How does adaptation lead to an evolution in an organism?
Adaptation will continue to shape the population,
How are photosynthesis and cellular respiration related?
Glucose from photosynthesis is used in Cellular Respiration and CO2 from Celular Respiration is used in Photosynthesis
What is currently causing destruction to many coral reefs
Coral bleaching, ecotourism, oil spills
Provide characteristics that positively influence the reproductive potential of an organism.
Food, space, competition
scattered with shrubs and isolated trees, which can be found between a tropical rainforest and desert biome. Not enough rain falls to support forests
savannah
The Chihuahua is a dog that exists because of what
artificial selection
Producer or Consumer (type)
(Give the answer in order)
Grass>Grasshopper>Bird>Snake>Hawk
Consumer
Primary Consumer
Secondary Consumer
Tertiary Consumer
Top Predator
How do humans negatively impact aquatic ecosystems?
Runoff, pollution, over fishing
A tick living on a dog is an example of:
Parasitism
measurement of the number of people in an area
Population density