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What is the 4 cycles of matter?
Nitrogen, Water, Carbon, and Phosphorous
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What is the answer to the term "Earth's climate zones are produced by an unequal distribution of _____ on Earth." ?
Sun's heat
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What is the answer to the term " Instead of competition for similar recourses species usuallly ____" ?
Divide
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How do communities change over time?
After disturbances, as some species die out and others move in.
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The total amount of living tissue within a trophic level is called _____
Biomass
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What is the cycle that contains decomposition of fungi?
Phosphorous cycle
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What are factors that determine global climate?
Solar energy trapped in biosphere latitude and transport of heat by wind currents.
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What is a key stone species?
An important species that can effect populations.
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What is ecological succession?
A series of more or less predictable changes that occur in a community over time.
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Show an example of a food chain.
Grass-insect-squirrel-snake-hawk
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What is _______ activity that turns marine sediments into rock?
Geological
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What is an example of micro climate?
Northern Hemisphere
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What is competitiveexclusion principle?
It states that no two species can occupy exactly the same niche in the same environment at the same time.
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What is pioneer species?
The first species in a new community.
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Show an example of an energy pyramid.
(bisected triangle)
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What is the water from oceans and lakes_____ and then_____ to form clouds?
Evaporates and Condences
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What is climate?
Patterns of temperature and presipitation.
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How do preditation and herbivory shape communities?
Predators can effect the size of prey and herbivores can effect the distribution of plant population.
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Succession begins in an area of no remains of an older community is called _____
Primary succession
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What does and ecological pyramid do?
Shows the relative amount of energy within each trophic level of a food chain/web.
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What is the answer to the term "some ____ are fixed by lightning." ?
Nitrogen gas
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What is the green house effect?
A process in which certian gasses trap sunlight in Erth's atmosphere.
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What are primary ways organisms depend on each other?
Mutualism, parasitism, commensalism
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What is secondary succession?
When a disturbance affects a community without completely destroying it.
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Give an example of a zooplankton.
Krill
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