Set: Midterm - BioH, Ecology (26 Q's)

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Term Definition
pyramids producers are at the bottom of these....
producer autotrophs [manufacture own food], photoautotrophs [use the sun's energy to produce food], chemoautotrophs [use chemicals to produce food]
Consumers first order [a mouse eats some grass], second order [a snake eats the mouse], etc..
consumers: primary vs. secondary secondary must eat more than the primary to gain the same amount of E, because E is lost as heat
food chains vs. food webs food chain just shows one line of eating, food web shows a lot more things being eaten and what they eat
Symbiosis parasitism [one organism benefits, while the other looses something], commensalism [one organism benefits, and nothing happens to the other], mutualism [both organisms benefit from the interaction]
Predator/Prey relasionships predator eats prey
Decomposers break down all dead stuff
Biomes there's at least 7 of them, climates where populations of many different species live
tundra cold and stuff, a treeless Artic region where the subsoil is permanently frozen
savanna a grassland that has scattered clumps of trees and sesonal rains
temperate grasslands more grass, limited trees streams and lots of herbavores
taiga same as deciduous forest, nearly continuous belt of evergreen conferous forests across the northern hemisphere, in the north america and eurasia
desert hot and dry, a large area of land that has very little water and very few plants growing on it
tropical rain forest it's where Tukan Sam lives from fruit loops
Trophic levels the levels on an energy pyramid
energy transfers energy is lost as heat on the way up the pyramid
Nitrogen Cycle the biogeochemical cycle that describes the transformations of nitrogen and nitrogen-containing compounds in nature. It is a gaseous cycle. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_cycle], the circulation of nitrogen
Carbon cycle people give off carbon dioxide, plants take it in and produce oxygen, then we breathe that in... bam, that's the cycle
water cycle The earth has a limited amount of water. That water keeps going around and around and around and around and in what we call the "_____________".... This cycle is made up of a few main parts:...evaporation (and transpiration), condensation, precipitation, and collection.
Herbivore any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants
Omnivore A raccoon that eats fish and wild berries is an example of an________.
Carnivore any animal that feeds on flesh

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Terms 23
Creator magerdan
Created January 24, 2008
Group CHS class of ONE ONE
Tags sheridan, bio, biology, ecology
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magerdan : Changed water cycle → The earth has a limited amount of water. That water keeps going around and around and around and around and in what we call the "_____________".... This cycle is made up of a few main parts:...evaporation (and transpiration), condensation, precipitation, and collection, the continual movement of water among Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, and land surface through evaporation, condensation, and precipitation to water cycle → The earth has a limited amount of water. That water keeps going around and around and around and around and in what we call the "_____________".... This cycle is made up of a few main parts:...evaporation (and transpiration), condensation, precipitation, and collection.
magerdan : Changed savanna → grasslands, a grassland that has scattered clumps of trees and sesonal rains to savanna → a grassland that has scattered clumps of trees and sesonal rains
magerdan : Changed pyramids → producers are at the bottom to pyramids → producers are at the bottom of these....
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  1. temperate grasslands → more grass, limited trees streams and lots of herbavores - 4 misses
  2. tropical rain forest → it's where Tukan Sam lives from fruit loops - 4 misses
  3. pyramids → producers are at the bottom of these.... - 3 misses
  4. Consumers → first order [a mouse eats some grass], second order [a snake eats the mouse], etc.. - 3 misses
  5. consumers: primary vs. secondary → secondary must eat more than the primary to gain the same amount of E, because E is lost as heat - 3 misses
  6. food chains vs. food webs → food chain just shows one line of eating, food web shows a lot more things being eaten and what they eat - 3 misses
  7. taiga → same as deciduous forest, nearly continuous belt of evergreen conferous forests across the northern hemisphere, in the north america and eurasia - 3 misses