Environment and Habitats | Food | The Water, Carbon, and Nitrogen Cycle | Populations and Diversity | Misc Ecology and Random |
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What is a habitat?
A place in which an organism lives
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What is a primary producer?
Plants are an example of this kind of producer.
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What is H2O gas?
The scientific name for water in the atmosphere is this.
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What is population density?
The number of births per year tells you this.
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What is Winter?
This beloved dolphin died in late 2021 after two movies were made.
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What is a biosphere?
Biome, ecosystem, community, and biosphere. Of these, the high level of environmental complexity is this.
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What is a predator?
A cheetah hunts and kills a gazelle. The cheetah is this.
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What is CO2 (Carbon Dioxide)?
Carbon is found in the atmosphere as this gas.
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What is decreased birthrate?
If immigration and emigration numbers remain constant, this is usually the contributing factor to a slowed growth rate.
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What is an autotroph?
These organisms feed off of non-living sources.
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What is a biotic factor?
The crustaceans the fish eat, the fish it competes with, and predators are THIS kind of factor for a fish.
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What is biomass?
This is the name for the amount of living tissue in a tropic level.
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What is transpiration?
When plants take up water from the ground, this process is called…
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What are invasive species?
This causes native species to die out.
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What is a tertiary/fourth level consumer?
The wolf is this level of consumer.
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What is 10%?
This percentage of energy is available for every trophic level.
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What is a scavenger?
Hyenas are an example of this.
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What is the denitrification?
This process is when bacteria obtain energy by converting nitrates to nitrogen gas.
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What is a density-independent limiting factor?
A hurricane is an example of this kind of density limiting factor.
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What is a increase in fish?
If a bird eats fish and the bird dies, this happens to the fish population.
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What is a niche?
A garden spider is a predator that hunts for prey among plants, which is an example of this word.
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What is parasitism?
A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and another is harmed is this.
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What is the Nitrogen Cycle
Of the three cycles (Carbon, Water, and Nitrogen), the atmosphere is the largest reservoir for this one.
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What is resilience?
A term used to describe a species’ ability to “bounce back.”
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