General Ecology & Ecosystem Limitations | Biomes | Biological Interactions | Energy Transfer | Biogeochemical Cycles |
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What is a population?
A level of organization that includes only the members of one species
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What is the taiga?
This type of biome has coniferous trees
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What is mutualism?
An interaction in which both species benefit
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What is a food web?
This would be a more realistic way of drawing the interactions in an ecosystem than a food chain
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What is precipitation?
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail
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What is an ecosystem?
This level of organization contains the biotic AND abiotic components of an environment
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What is the deciduous forest?
We are in this type of biome
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What is predation?
Food chains show this type of biological interaction
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What are omnivores?
Animals that eat both plants and animals, typically found on the third tier of the energy pyramic
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What are mass and energy?
Neither of these things can be created or destroyed
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What is a disturbance?
Fires or deforestation are both examples of this effect on ecosystems
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What is the grasslands/savanna?
Grazing animals would most likely be found in this biome
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What is intraspecific competition?
Competition between members of the SAME species
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What is 1%?
This is enough energy from the sun to fuel the entire food pyramid
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What is transpiration? (evapotranspiration also ok)
Evaporation from the leaves and flowers of plants
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What is a keystone species?
Species earn this title because they have an effect on their environment that is disproportionate to their population size
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Benthic zone
Zone located at the bottom of aquatic biomes
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What is parasitism?
If viruses were alive, coronavirus would most likely have this type of interaction with humans
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What is a autotroph or producer?
Two words we discussed that describe organisms that make their own food
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What are the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmostphere?
The three abiotic parts of earth that are affected by biogeochemical cycles
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What is carrying capacity?
Natural selection decides who survives when an organism reaches this point with its resource-level
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What is the desert?
Vacuoles (a type of organelle) would be most helpful in this biome
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What is commensalism?
Cattle egrets have this type of relationship with buffaloes
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What is a decomposer?
Some of the energy not passed to higher trophic levels is broken down by this type of organism
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What is carbon fixation?
When carbon is converted (by plants) from a gas to a solid (photosynthesis is not the answer I am looking for - more specific)
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