Bio I Ch 15 Tufts Flashcards

3209443769	Producers (autotrophs)	capture their own energy and make organic molecules	0
3209451210	Plants	Type of producers in terrestrial ecosystems	1
3209457431	Protists and bacteria	type of producers in aquatic ecosystems	2
3209466594	Gross (primary productivity)	rate in which producers in an ecosystem capture energy	3
3209472293	Biomass	Amount of organic material in an ecosystem	4
3209477681	Net (primary productivity)	Rate at which biomass accumulates in an ecosystem	5
3209482506	Light	Factor that effects net primary productivity (L)	6
3209485474	Temperature	Factor that effects net primary productivity (T)	7
3209490595	Precipitation	Factor that effects net primary productivity (P)	8
3209497824	Consumers (heterotrophs)	Get energy by consuming organic molecules made by other organims	9
3209501615	Herbivores	`Type of consumer that eat only plants	10
3209504356	Carnivores	Type of consumer that only eats meat	11
3209508775	Omnivores	type of consumer that eats meat and plants	12
3209512510	Detritivores	Type of consumer that eats detris (garbage)	13
3209516138	Decomposers	Detritivores that break down the food they eat and cause decay	14
3209522494	Trophic level	level in a food chain or food web	15
3209529659	1st trophic level	Producers trophic level	16
3209531170	2nd Trophic level	carnivores and omnivores trophic level	17
3209535384	3rd Trophic level	detritivores and decomposers Trophic level	18
3209542961	Food chain	Single path ways of feeding relationships	19
3209547008	Food web	Interrelated collection of food chain	20
3209551984	10 percent rule	about 10 percent of the energy consumed in one trophic level is incorporated into the organism at the next trophic level	21
3209568169	energy lost in trophic levels	1. Energy is used to keep organism alive 2. Organism avoids being eaten 3. Parts of organism are not broken down 4. Energy is lost in heat	22
3209583106	Biological magnification	Increasing concentration of a harmful substance in organisms at higher trophic levels in a food chain or food web	23
3209593546	Biochemical cycle	movement of important atoms through the biotic and abiotic portion of the environment	24
3209599852	evapotranspiration	The evaporation of water from soil plus the transpiration of water from plants.	25
3209602848	important processes in water cycle	1. evaporation 2. transpiration 3. Precipitation	26
3209608642	evaporation	Liquid water to gas water vapor	27
3209612523	transpiration	Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant	28
3209617860	carbon dioxide (CO2)	this greenhouse gas acts as a greenhouse on the planet	29
3209733297	Amino Acids and Nitrogen Bases	nitrogen is important for life to exist because nitrogen is the building block of _______ and ________	30
3209833611	79	Percent of nitrogen in atmosphere	31
3209835349	20	percent of oxygen in atmosphere	32
3209843066	Beans (peas, clover, alfalfa)	plants that have mutualistic relationship with bacteria to allow them to get nitrogen	33
3209850686	Ammonification	Turning atmospheric nitrogen or decomposed detris into ammonia	34
3209871182	Biomes	Large terrestrial ecosystems determined by their dominant plant life	35
3209881523	Aquatic biomes	large aquatic ecosystems, determined by location	36
3209890739	Tropical Rain forest	A LOT of rain, tall trees, high temp, along equator, poor soil, 20% of all species in the world live here, trees being cut down for agriculture	37
3209905245	Desert	barely any rain, fairly small biomass, a lot of nocturnal life, hot in day cold at night, animals are small, no trees, very poor soil	38
3209919061	Temperate deciduous forest	mild amount of precipitation, warm summer, cold winter, deciduous trees, have had many trees cut down, fair soil	39
3209932221	Grassland	Little rain, very inland, very fertile soil, a lot of land is being farmed	40
3209946474	Chaparral	Cool winter, hot winter, many wildfires, little rain, Mediterranean	41
3209966815	savannas	tropical or subtropical grasslands, wet season and dry season	42
3209971645	Temperate rain forest	A lot of rain, lukewarm cool climate, tall trees, damp, poor soil, much rain	43
3209979649	taiga	Mountainous, very cold winter, some rain, cool summer, conifer trees, dry cold soil, south of tundra, cone bearing plants, evergreens, moose, bears, wolves	44
3210004708	Tundra	northernmost biome, permafrost, treeless, extremely cold winter, mini lakes form during summer, flat terrain, foxes, lemmings, arctic hair	45
3210031133	Eutrophic	Rich in organic matter, murky water	46
3210880927	Oligotrophic	clear, rocky bottom, low in organic matter	47
3210886617	Nutrients	Slower moving streams and rivers have more________	48
3210892783	Intertidal zone	habitat area of the ocean between the high tide and the low tide line on the sea shore	49
3210894651	Neritic zone	Area of ocean that extends from the low-tide line out to the edge of the continental shelf, most productivity	50
3210898461	Oceanic zone	low productivity, no light (aphotic), cold water	51
3210902694	Estuaries	Fresh water from rivers goes into oceans, slat marshes, mud flats, very productive, aquatic version of rainforest	52
3212779161	Nitrites	NO2	53
3212779162	Nitrates	NO3	54