Target 1
What are three examples of biotic factors?
What are 5 steps in the water cycle? (in no particular order)
Where are autotrophs found on a trophic pyramid?
What is at the bottom?
Exponential growth is indicated by what type of curve on a graph?
What is a J-Curve?
What gasses contribute to global warming?
What are carbon monoxide, methane & carbon dioxide?
What are three examples of abiotic factors?
What are four types of consumers?
What are carnivore, herbivore, omnivore and decomposer.
Where are heterotrophs found on the trophic pyramid?
What is everywhere except the bottom?
Logistic growth curve is indicated by what type of curve?
What is an S-Curve.
As toxins, such as DDT, move up the trophic levels in food chains or food webs, its concentration increases/decreases/stays the same?
What is the sun?
What must be fixed by bacteria or lightning before plants and animals can use it?
What is Nitrogen?
What are the types of symbiotic relationships?
List the three stages of ecological succession.
What are primary succession, secondary succession & climax community?
What is an increase in Earth’s average temperature from the buildup of fossil fuel emissions in the atmosphere called?
What is global warming?
The organisms in Gar-Field’s garden are likely to include bacteria, grass, flowers, trees, insects, arachnids, birds and some mammals. Together, all these organisms make up:
What is the community?
What are the 4 nutrient cycles we discussed in class?
What are water, carbon, nitrogen & phosphorus cycles?
A wolf stalks, kills then eats a deer. Based on its behavior, what ecological terms describe the wolf? (two or more terms)
What is carnivore & predator?
What are pioneer species & why are they so important in ecological succession?
What is the organisms that start succession?
What are deadzones in the Chesapeake Bay?
List the levels of organization in order from smallest to largest.
What is:
Organism
Population
Community
Ecosystem
Biome
Biosphere
What is the phosphorus cycle?
As you move up the trophic pyramid, biomass (increases/decreases) and energy (increases/decreases).
What is decreases & increases.
As resources in an environment become less available to the population that lives there, what happens to the population & why?
What is carrying capacity for the environment has been reached and there are limiting factors keeping the population from continuing to grow?
Describe how dead zones occur in the Chesapeake Bay.
What is agricultural runoff from farmland that carries nutrients from fertilizers and animal manure into rivers and streams, eventually flowing into the Chesapeake Bay.