Biomes
This Biome is hot, extremely wet, and is very biodiverse.
What is the tropical rainforest?
Organisms that make their own food with sunlight.
What are producers?
This cycle moves carbon through the atmosphere, organisms, oceans, and fossil fuels.
What is the carbon Cycle?
The percentage of energy transferred from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10%?
A species that has a large impact on ecosystem structure despite low abundance.
What is a keystone species?
This biome is dry, hot, and full of succulents.
What is the desert?
The position an organism occupies in a food chain.
What is a trophic level?
The process of converting nitrogen gas into a usable form for plants.
What is nitrogen fixation?
The total amount of solar energy captured by producers in an ecosystem.
What is gross primary productivity?
A species that thrives in a wide range of conditions and has a broad niche.
What is a generalist species?
This biome contains permanently frozen ground called permafrost.
What is the Tundra?
Organisms that feed on dead or decaying organic matter.
What are decomposers?
This nutrient cycle lacks a gaseous phase and moves mostly through rock and water.
What is the phosphorus cycle?
GPP minus the energy used by producers for respiration.
What is net primary productivity?
This type of species is the first to colonize an area during primary succession.
What is a pioneer species?
This aquatic biome is a mix of fresh and salt water?
What is an estuary?
A diagram that shows the flow of energy in an ecosystem through various organisms.
What is a Food Web?
The process of water moving from plant leaves to the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
The law stating that energy is lost as heat when transferred.
What is the second law of thermodynamics?
The role a species plays in its ecosystem, including resource use and interactions.
What is a niche?
This forest biome has moderate rainfall and four distinct seasons.
What is the temperate deciduous forest?
These organisms receive the least energy in a food chain.
What are tertiary consumers?
This is the process by which decomposers break down organic nitrogen into ammonium.
What is ammonification?
These organisms are responsible for converting solar energy into chemical energy.
What are photosynthetic autotrophs?
A species found in only one location and nowhere else in the world.
What is an endemic species?