Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Biomes |
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What is an organism?
What is smallest level of Organization?
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What is a limiting factor?
What are abiotic or biotic factors that restricts the numbers, reproduction, or distribution of organisms called?
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What is uniform?
What is the dispersion of black bears called?
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What is biodiversity?
What is the variety of life in an area determined by the number of different species in that area?
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What is the Tundra?
What is the biome with an a temperature at -70 to -12 degrees celsius?
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What is a nonliving factor?
What is an abiotic factor?
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What is primary succession?
Which ecological succession begins with no soil present?
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What is a density-independent factor?
Flooding, hurricanes, extreme heat or cold are considered what type of factor?
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What is overexploitation?
What is the excessive use, of species that economic value called?
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What is a tropical savanna?
What is the biome with lions, hyenas, and elephants?
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What is commensalism?
What is the term to describe the relationship between a sea anemone and clownfish?
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What is the tropical rainforest?
Which biome has the largest species diversity?
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What is immigration, emigration, birth rate, and death rate?
What are the four categories population growth consider?
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What is increased forest edge produced by habitat fragmentation causing animals to perish because of less habitat interior?
What is the edge effect?
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What is temperate grassland?
What is the biome that is known for drought, grazing animals, and fires that keep it from becoming a forest?
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What is a detrivore?
What is the name of a heterotroph that eats fragments of dead matter?
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What is the ozone layer?
What is the protective layer in the atmosphere that protects us from harmful UV rays?
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What is carrying capacity?
What is the number of organisms in a species that the environment can support called?
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What is Fertilizers, animal waste, sewage or other substances rich in nitrogen and phosphorus that cause extensive algae growth causing suffocation in fish species?
Explain Eutrophication.
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What is tropical seasonal forest?
What biome is the biome that has elephants, tigers, monkeys, rabbits, spiders, and frogs with seasonal rainfall?
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What is an organisms role or position in an environment?
What is a niche?
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What is an ice age?
What is ocean levels rising? What is multiple natural disasters?
Describe 3 possible outcomes of the Gulf Stream stopping.
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What is agriculture, domestication of animals, and improved shelter?
Name three technological advances that has increased not only lifespan but carrying capacity of the human population.
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What is the use of natural organisms that detoxify polluted areas?
What is biological remediation?
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What is a temperate forest?
Which biome is composed of mostly broad-leaved, deciduous tree (trees that shed their leaves in autumn)?
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