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5. Energy Flow Biogeoche- mical Cycles Population Ecology 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points Biodiversity Ecosystem Structure

6. All organisms and nonliving entities that occur and interact in a particular area at the same time. It includes abiotic and biotic components. Focuses on movement of energy and matter.

7. What is an Ecosystem?

8. 1. In cool climate, sunlight reflects off white surfaces. 2. As climate warms, sunlight is absorbed where dark surfaces are exposed. 3. Light absorption speeds warming, exposing more dark surfaces.

9. What is a Positive Feedback Loop?

10. System characteristics that are not evident in the components alone (the whole is more than the sum of the parts).

11. What are Emergent Properties?

12. Swamp/Marsh, Tropical Rainforest, and Algal Beds/Reefs are ecosystems with the highest levels.

13. What is Net Primary Production?

14. Computer software used in landscape ecology research that analyzes how elements of a landscape are arranged and divides landscape into layers. Helps in planning and land-use decisions.

15. What is Geographic Informational System?

16. The portion of the fundamental niche that is actually filled due to competition or other species’ interactions.

17. What is a Realized Niche?

18. Process by which species use different resources or use shared resources in different ways. For example, birds all eating insects, but catching them on different parts of the tree.

19. What is Resource Partitioning?

20. A phenomenon in which predators at high trophic levels indirectly affect populations at low trophic levels

21. What is a Trophic Cascade?

22. Community that remains in place with few changes until another disturbance restarts succession

23. What is a Climax Community?

24. Phenomenon that occurs when air going over a mountain releases moisture on one side, creating an arid region on the other side.

25. What is the Rainshadow Effect?

26. A set of individuals that share certain characteristics and can interbreed, producing fertile offspring

27. What is a Species?

28. The loss of a particular population, but not the entire species.

29. What is Extirpation?

30. A loss of ecosystem services, food sources, tourism, medicine sources, and aesthetic/spiritual ties with nature.

31. What are effects of Biodiversity Loss?

32. The study of the factors behind the loss, protection, and restoration of biodiversity. Integrates evolution, extinction, ecology, and environmental systems in developing solutions.

33. What is Conservation Biology?

34. Habitat alteration, invasive species, pollution, overharvesting, and climate change.

35. What are the primary causes of Biodiversity loss?

36. Underground reservoirs of groundwater found in spongelike regions of rock and soil that recharges from water seeping through soil.

37. What is an Aquifer?

38. The two major processes in this cycle are: (1) Photosynthesis by plants, algae, and cyanobacteria removes carbon dioxide from air and water and produces oxygen and carbohydrates. (2) Respiration returns carbon to the air and oceans.

39. What is the Carbon Cycle?

40. Lightning or nitrogen-fixing bacteria combine (fix) nitrogen with hydrogen to form ammonium, which can be used by plants.

41. What is Nitrogen Fixation?

42. The process by which most phosphorous is released from solid rock.

43. What is Weathering?

44. Increases in phytoplankton growth which results in eutrophication and hypoxia.

45. What are the effects of runoff from fertilizer containing Phosphorus & Nitrogen?

46. Graphs that show that the likelihood of death varies with age

47. What are Survivorship Curves?

48. Physical, chemical, and biological attributes of the environment that restrain population growth such as space, food, water, mates, shelter, suitable breeding sites, temperature, disease, predators.

49. What are limiting factors?

50. The amount of biologically productive land and sea available to us

51. What is Biocapacity?

52. A model of economic and cultural change that explains the declining death and birth rates in industrializing nations. Populations undergo four stages (pre- industrial, transitional, industrial, post-industrial).

53. What is a Demographic Transition?

54. Efforts to control the number and spacing of children; the greatest single factor slowing population growth. Clinics offer advice, information, and contraceptives.

55. What is Family Planning?

56. Make your wager

57. The percentage growth rate of the human population on planet Earth.

58. What is 1.14% per year?