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Ecosystems
Cycles
Climate/Biomes
Evo I
Evo II
100
These are living factors
What are biotic factors?
100
what is the most important element for living organisms?
What is Carbon?
100
Which has higher albedo? Asphalt or snow?
What is Snow?
100
What constitutes a species?
Whether they are physical distinct from other organisms and whether they can interbreed.
100
Natural selection, artificial selection and genetic drift are examples of
What is EVOLUTION?
200
Water, solar energy and carbon dioxide are needed for this.
What is photosynthesis
200
When nutrients are transported through the soil with water, this process is known as
What is leaching
200
Where is upswelling likely to occur?
What is west coast of continents?
200
The relative dominance of each species within an ecosystem is...
What is species evenness.
200
When a population suddenly decreases due to habitat loss etc. this is known as
What is the bottleneck effect?
300
This demonstrates complex interactions between species within an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
300
Which element is most often limiting in aquatic ecosystems
What is Phosphorus
300
Global water currents are essential to......
What is regulating climate by transmitting heat from the equator?
300
How do you determine whether two distinct species are related? (3 things)
What are similar physical characteristics (body shape), Similar behavior, and GENETIC SIMILARITY.
300
What would produce the highest rate of evolution?
What is high genetic variation?
400
What law of thermodynamics represents energy loss within an ecosystem?
What is 2nd law/ entropy (my favorite!)
400
The conversion of nitrogen gas in ammonia which can be used by producers is....
What is Nitrogen fixation
400
Where would you find water "sinking" in the oceans
What is northern polar region?
400
A trait that improves an individuals fitness is known as
What is adaptation?
400
When extinction rate is greatly increased over background extinction this is called
What is mass extinction?
500
Ecosystems demonstrating this are more diverse than those with high or low disturbance.
What is intermediate disturbance.
500
The release of nitrogen gas from nitrate is
What is denitrification
500
This biome has adaptations lie small leaves with few pores for gas exchange.
What is subtropical desert?
500
If two populations are reintroduced after allopatric speciation has occurred, what is a likely outcome?
What is the two populations would not be able to interbreed?
500
What is our current global extinction rate?
What is as high as 30,000 species lost /year?!!!?!!!