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Question	Answer
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?	no
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