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Nonliving things in the biome (rocks, wind, sun, water)

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Nonliving things in the biome (rocks, wind, sun, water)

Abiotic

Individual living thing (the most specific and smallest level)

Organism

The sum of all ecosystems on Earth

Biosphere

Temperate deciduous forest is Virginia's

Biome

Large geographical areas with distinct plants (Flora), animals (Fauna), climate and terrain

Biome

Living things inhabiting the Earth

Biotic

In a temperate deciduous forest, are the trees mostly conifer or seasonal trees?

Seasonal

What is another name for chaparral?

Shrubland

What is the SECOND coldest biome?

Boreal

In the desert, it is hot during the day and cold during the

Night

Largest estuary in the U.S. located in VA & MD providing our area with a great deal of biodiversity

Chesapeake bay

Wetlands formed when rivers meet the sea containing a ‘brackish’ mixture of freshwater & saltwater

Estuary

Main reason for biodiversity loss

Overpopulation

Per person, each person creates how much trash annually (lbs)

1700

The irony is that in America, tap water is safer than bottled water and yet we continue to buy plastic bottles and pollute our water more even when we do have access to clean, drinkable water. Bottled water is FDA; whereas, tap water is

EPA

When destruction of vegetation increases fertilizer runoff into water resulting in “Algal Blooms” that rob organisms of dissolved oxygen in the water creating “dead zones”

Eutrophication

Species from other areas that were introduced to an environment they don’t belong to by humans (snakefish, stinkbugs, house euro sparrows)

Invasive

The majority of electricity in the U.S. still comes from

Fossil

Can plastic or styrofoam be recycled?

If the human species where to go over it's carrying capacity, what will happen? (to human pop)

Huge drop

Model that shows how energy and biomass is transferred throughout an ecosystem is...

Food chain

What gets energy from an apex predator?

Decomposer

Amount of matter comprising a group of organisms (the more organisms at a level the more -------)

Biomass

As a trophic pyramid goes up, what goes down? (hint: 10%)

Kcal

Predator or prey that exhibits the highest # of interactions; If removed many other species die

Keystone

Parasite benefits while the host is harmed

Parasitism

Both species benefit like when you say “the feeling is mutual”

Mutualism

One species benefits while the other is neither harmed nor helped

Commensalism

Assuming a population size stays constant, propose at least two factors that might cause a population to shift from a low density habitat to a high density habitat?

Habitat decrease

Wolves and bison are both species that clump together, but their reasons are different. Bison are not very social, but wolves are. What is another reason?

Diet