Unit 1 APES Basic Principles of Living Things

Question 1

what are terrestrial bios defined by?

Answer 1

precipitation, animal species, and plant species

Question 2

when a participation line is below the temperature line in a climate diagram means?

Answer 2

that plant growth will be limited by perticipation

Question 3

Permafrost is important in what type of biome?

Answer 3

Tundra

Question 4

what biome has the highest soil nutrient levels?

Answer 4

Temperate deciduous forest

Question 5

what is an abotic component in an environment?

Answer 5

a nonliving thingw

Question 6

what is a biotic component in an environment?

Answer 6

a living thing

Question 7

what is the soil like in tropical rain forests?

Answer 7

the lack soil horizions

Question 8

what is soil horizions

Answer 8

different levels of soil

Question 9

what country has the largest area of temperate deciduous forests?

Answer 9

USA

Question 10

dead trees provide what in an ecosystem?

Answer 10

valuable habitiats for wildlife

Question 11

what aquatic ecosystem has the harshest conditions form tides?

Answer 11

the intertidal zones

Question 12

what are the levels of an aquatic ecosystem (remember LLPB)

Answer 12

Littoral
Limnetic
Profundal
Benthic

Question 13

what is the darkest level of the aquatic ecosystem?

Answer 13

the benthic zone

Question 14

what are wetlands profusely bad at?

Answer 14

spreading seeds

Question 15

Aquatic biomes are categorized by what?

Answer 15

Salinity

Question 16

what is the major scorce of oxygen in the oceans comes from?

Answer 16

Phytoplankton

Question 17

why are floodplains good for agri production?

Answer 17

nutrients tend to be rich and the soils fertile

Question 18

what are autotrophs?

Answer 18

organisms that use photosynthesis

Question 19

what is the first level of the primary production pyramid?

Answer 19

primary producers

Question 20

what is the second level of the PPP

Answer 20

primary consumers

Question 21

what is the third level of the PPP

Answer 21

secondary consumers

Question 22

what is the top level of PPP

Answer 22

tertiary consumers/top predators

Question 23

what is GPP

Answer 23

the total amount of energy captured by plants from the sun

Question 24

What is NPP

Answer 24

the total amount of energy converted into glucose
NPP=GPP-RP

Question 25

what is the average percent of energy passed on between trophic levels?

Answer 25

10%

Question 26

what chemical is fixed in the air by bacteria

Answer 26

nitrogen

Question 27

how does human construction affect the water cycyle?

Answer 27

increasing runoff and increasing evaporation

Question 28

phosphorus does what to aquatic ecosystems?

Answer 28

causes agal blooms in excess amounts and is a limiting nutrient

Question 29

what is the largest carbon pool?

Answer 29

the oceans

Question 30

annual fluxuation in CO2 is best explained by

Answer 30

The seasonal activity of green plants

Question 31

when water leaves a plants leaves it is referred to as what?

Answer 31

transpiration

Question 32

what is symbiosis?

Answer 32

a long term interaction between 2 species

Question 33

what Is mutalism?

Answer 33

relationship between organisms what is beneficial to both

Question 34

what is commensalism?

Answer 34

relationship where only one species benefits and the other is unharmed

Question 35

what is parasitism?

Answer 35

relationship where one species is helped and the other is harmed

Question 36

what is nitrogen fixation?

Answer 36

the conversion of nitrogen molecules in the atmosphere into ammonia (accomplished through bacteria in soil)

Question 37

what is ammonification?

Answer 37

organic compounds being turned into ammonia and then being turned into nitrite

Question 38

what is nitrification?

Answer 38

the conversion of nitrites into nitrates in soils

Question 39

what is assimilation?

Answer 39

process where plants and animals incorporate nitrogen and ammonia through there roots

Question 40

what is dentrification?

Answer 40

the conversion of nitrites into nitrates in the atmosphere

Question 41

what is a biome?

Answer 41

a large region in the biosphere characterized by climate and P+A species

Question 42

what is the primary productivity theory?

Answer 42

only the level below can affect the level above

Question 43

what is the trophic Cascade hypothesis?

Answer 43

that the top level of the pyramid can indirectly affect the bottom level of the pyramid

Question 44

what is the law of conservation

Answer 44

energy cannot be destroyed, just transferred and transformed