Unit 1

Question 1

Any close and long term interaction between 2 organisms of different species

Answer 1

Symbiosis

Question 2

(+)(+)

Answer 2

Mutualism

Question 3

(-)(-)

Answer 3

Competition

Question 4

(+)(0)

Answer 4

Commensalism

Question 5

Example of mutualism

Answer 5

Followers and pollinators

Question 6

Example of competition

Answer 6

Baby birds competing for same food

Question 7

Example of commensalism

Answer 7

Birds in nest

Question 8

Reduces population size since there are fewer resources available

Answer 8

Competition

Question 9

How can competition lead to resource partitioning

Answer 9

Different species use the same resources in different ways to reduce competition
Ex: Temporal, spatial, morphological

Question 10

Intraspecific

Answer 10

Between the same species

Question 11

interspecific

Answer 11

Between different species

Question 12

More plant and animal life in an ecosystem

Answer 12

Biodiversity

Question 13

An area that shares a combination of average yearly temperature and precipitation

Answer 13

Biome

Question 14

Typical location of a tropical rainforest

Answer 14

Along the equator

Question 15

Typical climate of tropical rainforest

Answer 15

Warm and high precipitation

Question 16

Plants and animals in tropical rainforest

Answer 16

Plants- most diverse, big trees, vines
Animals- Most diverse, birds, and insects, reptiles, Mammals

Question 17

Typical location in deciduous forest

Answer 17

North America and Europe

Question 18

Typical climate in temperate deciduous forest

Answer 18

Warm summer, cool winter, mild precipitation

Question 19

Plants and animals in temperate deciduous forest

Answer 19

Plants– Trees that lose leaves in winter
Animals – animals adapted to changing seasons

Question 20

Typical location of Taiga (boreal) forest

Answer 20

Canada and North America,
Northern Europe

Question 21

Typical climate in taiga forest

Answer 21

Cool Summer And cold winter

Question 22

Plants and animals in taiga Forest

Answer 22

Adapted to cold winters

Question 23

Location in tropical grasslands (Savanna)

Answer 23

African plains

Question 24

Climate in grasslands/savanna

Answer 24

Warm, rainy season

Question 25

Plants and animals in grassland/Savanna

Answer 25

Plants – grasses, small trees Animals – grazing animals

Question 26

Location in temperate grassland/Prairie

Answer 26

Great plains of North America

Question 27

Climate of temperate grassland/Prairie

Answer 27

Dry, warm

Question 28

Plants and animals in temperate grassland/prairie

Answer 28

 plants – grasses, small trees Animals – grazing animals

Question 29

Location in tundra

Answer 29

North and south poles

Question 30

Climate in tundra

Answer 30

Very cold

Question 31

Plants and animals in tundra

Answer 31

Plants – Permafrost – not really any plants Animals – adapted to very cold weather

Question 32

Location of desert

Answer 32

Africa, North America, Middle East

Question 33

Climate of desert

Answer 33

Very hot – dry

Question 34

Plants and animals in Desert

Answer 34

Plants – plants that hold in water Animals – adapted to very hot weather

Question 35

Location of coral reef

Answer 35

Warm shallow ocean waters

Question 36

Plants and animals in coral reef

Answer 36

Plants - algae  animals - most diverse ecosystem, lots of fish/crustaceans

Question 37

Location of open ocean

Answer 37

Large marine biomes

Question 38

Plants and animals in open ocean

Answer 38

Plants – only algae/phytoplankton in photic zones Animals – many species of fish, aquatic mammals

Question 39

Location of estuary/wetland

Answer 39

Freshwater/coasta

Question 40

Plants and animals in estuary

Answer 40

Plants – plants that can handle fresh salt water Animals – birds, turtles, fish

Question 41

Importance of carbon

Answer 41

CO2 (Carbon dioxide),glucose, CH4 (Ammonia)

Question 42

Importance of nitrogen

Answer 42

Makes proteins

Question 43

Importance of water

Answer 43

Crucial for photosynthesis and cellular respiration

Question 44

Largest reservoir of carbon

Answer 44

Sinks – ocean, plants

Question 45

Largest nitrogen reservoir

Answer 45

Atmosphere

Question 46

Largest water reservoir

Answer 46

Ocean

Question 47

Carbon method of transport

Answer 47

Photosynthesis, cellular respiration, compassion, burial nitrification

Question 48

Nitrogen method of Transport

Answer 48

Fixation, assimilation

Question 49

Water method of transport

Answer 49

Runoff, precipitation, Condensation,, Transpiration, evapotranspiration, Infiltration

Question 50

Cycle duration of carbon

Answer 50

Some fast, some short

Question 51

Cycle duration of nitrogen

Answer 51

Short

Question 52

Cycle duration of water

Answer 52

Short

Question 53

Conversion of NH4 (Ammonia) and nitrite and then nitrate by soil bacteria

Answer 53

Nitrification

Question 54

Conversion of soil nitrate into nitrous N2O gas, Returns to atmosphere

Answer 54

Denitrification

Question 55

 plants and animals taking nitrogen (Nitrate and ammonium) In and Incorporating it into their body (make DNA and amino acids)

Answer 55

Assimilation

Question 56

Process of nitrogen gas being converted into usable form (Nitrite/ammonia) 

Answer 56

Nitrogen fixation

Question 57

Soil bacteria and decomposers converting waste and dead biomass into ammonia which goes to atmosphere returning to soil (nitrate —> ammonia)

Answer 57

Ammonification

Question 58

Energy is never created or destroyed

Answer 58

First law of thermodynamics

Question 59

Example of first law Thermodynamics

Answer 59

When a rabbit eats leaf the energy from the leaf glucose is transferred

Question 60

Each time energy is transferred some is lost as heat

Answer 60

Second law of thermodynamics

Question 61

Example of second law of thermodynamics

Answer 61

10% rule

Question 62

The total amount of energy from the sun that plants capture

Answer 62

Gross primary Productivity

Question 63

The amount of energy left over for consumers after plants have done cellular respiration

Answer 63

Net primary productivity

Question 64

Biomes with high NPP

Answer 64

Rainforest, forest (lots of sun, water)

Question 65

Biomes with low in PP

Answer 65

Desert, tundra (Missing sun or water)

Question 66

Order of ecological hierarchy

Answer 66

Species, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere