Copyright 2009 Microdocs ProductivityDisturbanceDiversityFood WebBiomes 10 Points 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 10 Points 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points Resilience
Copyright 2009 Microdocs When we take resources faster than they are produced the ecosystem will _____ biomass.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is lose? (10 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs Productivity is the ____ rate of the organisms living in an ecosystem.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is growth rate? (20 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs We can maintain sustainable ecosystems by _______ the rate we take resources.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is balancing? (30 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs Photosynthesis requires the following four resources.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What are sunlight, carbon dioxide, water, and nutrients? (40 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs The basic level of productivity is influenced by two main factors which are ______________ and ___________.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What are the availability of resources, and diversity of the ecosystem? (50 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs Disturbance to an area can be good and ___.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is bad? (10 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs Disturbance varies in scale from cataclysmic to ______.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is minor? (20 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs The right amount of disturbance can help to maintain an ecosystem’s ______.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is diversity? (30 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs Diversity is maximized if the _____ between too much and too little disturbance realized.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is balance? (40 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs Many of our actions add to ecosystem disturbance. What rhymes with “solution” and can be added to this list; Global warming, over-fishing, coastal development, ocean acidification, invasive species.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is pollution? (50 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs ______ ecosystems are more resilient against disturbance.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is diverse? (10 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs One of the best strategies for preserving resilience is to set aside and ______ areas.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is protect? (20 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs Resilience needs ecosystem ____ to resist or recover from disturbance.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is diversity? (30 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs Intact ecosystems resist disturbance better and grow back faster than ones that have lost _______.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is diversity? (40 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs A healthy and resilient ecosystem needs: A source of young, time to recover, and _________.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is a complete set of species? (50 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs Diversity (or biodiversity) is the _______ within and between living things.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is variation? (10 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs Diversity affects the amount of resources we can use ______.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is sustainably? (20 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs Protecting against diversity ____ is crucial in preserving a sustainable ecosystem.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is loss? (30 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs Diversity affects an ecosystem’s abilitiy to resist _______.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is disturbance? (40 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs Diversity affects ecosystem ______, increases _________, and maintains ________.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is productivity, resilience, and health? (50 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs This not so celestial animal eats coral.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is a starfish? (crown-of-thorns) (10 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs A ______ is an animals that eats only plants.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is a herbivore? (20 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs “Carn” is a Latin word that means _____.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is flesh or meat? (30 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs English words that end with the letters “vore” mean that they are ______.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What are eaters or consumers? (40 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs The four “vores” are herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, and _______.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is detritivore? (50 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs This biome covers approximately 3/4 of the Earth’s surface.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is marine (or ocean) biome. (10 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs Biotic communities include all living organisms within an _____.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is an ecosystem? (20 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs The area where two or more ecosystems merge is called an______.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is an ecotone? (30 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs Bios comes from the Greek word meaning ____.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is life? (40 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs Earth is the only planet known to have a ______.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is a biosphere? (50 points)
Copyright 2009 Microdocs Make your wager
Copyright 2009 Microdocs Maintaining a coral reef community is expensive and takes away resources from human communities.
Copyright 2009 Microdocs What is false?