Chapter 3
The temperature and precipitation patterns over time.
What is Climate?
Diagram used to show who eats who in an ecosystem.
When organisms leave an area.
What is Emigration?
A species that is extra important to an ecosystem.
What is a Keystone Species?
Two factors that increase a population.
All of the organisms that share a habitat.
What is a Community?
Geometrical shape used to show the energy in an ecosystem.
What is a Triangle/Pyramid?
Organisms are evenly distributed in an area (ex. penguins).
What is Uniform Distribution?
Variation within the DNA of species.
How much energy is passed up to the next trophic level?
What is 10%?
The process that heats the earth with the atmosphere.
What is the Greenhouse Effect
Cannot create their own carbohydrates.
What is a Consumer?
The population of deer went above the carrying capacity. What happens?
What is a Population Decrease?
A pattern of events in an ecosystem that starts with bare rock.
What is Primary Succession?
The maximum number if individuals in a population that an ecosystem can support.
What is Carrying Capacity?
The layer of the ocean where photosynthesis can occur.
What is the Photic Zone?
The nutrient cycle that does not include the atmosphere.
What is phosphorous?
This factor impacts populations that are grouped close together.
What is a Density-Dependent Limiting Factor?
The conditions in which an organism can survive and reproduce.
What is Range of Tolerance?
If there are 5 units of energy available in the secondary consumers level of a pyramid, how much was in the primary producers?
What is 500 units?
The place where freshwater and saltwater meet.
What is an Estuary
The two ways that primary producers create carbohydrates.
What is Chemosynthesis and Photosynthesis?
This graphic shows how old all of the individuals are in a specific population.
What is an Age Structure Diagram?
Competition within individuals of the same species.
What is Intraspecific Competition?
There are 3 worms living under a rock. A maximum of 100 worms can live under 10 rocks. How many more worms can live under the first rock?
What are 7 worms?