APES Flashcards

14902323019	abiotic factors	Nonliving components of environment.	0
14902323020	biotic factors	All the living organisms that inhabit an environment	1
14902326391	predator	An animal that hunts other animals for food	2
14902341863	prey	An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism	3
14902397922	Symbiosis	A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species.	4
14902404371	competition	the struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources	5
14902423320	Mutualism	A relationship between two species in which both species benefit	6
14902423322	Commensalism	A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected	7
14902426924	Parasitism	A relationship between two organisms of different species where one benefits and the other is harmed	8
14902435630	resource partitioning	The division of environmental resources by coexisting species such that the niche of each species differs by one or more significant factors from the niches of all coexisting species	9
14902449514	Forest Biome	A biome that includes all regions of forest over the lands of the Earth.	10
14902455532	Desert Biome	a biome that has little or no plant life, long periods without rain, and extreme temperatures; usually found in hot climates	11
14902459271	Grassland Biome	land biome characterized by moderate rainfall, fields of grasses, and few trees	12
14902463004	tundra biome	extremely cold and dry biome; known for its permafrost, mosses, lichens, caribou, and snowy owl	13
14902474668	Lake Biome	large bodies of freshwater surrounded by land	14
14902501666	river biome	takes the water that collects in a watershed and ultimately deposits that water in the ocean	15
14902515481	coral reef biome	occurs in the photic zone of warm tropical waters in scattered locations around the globe	16
14902520251	mangrove swamps	A swamp that occurs along tropical and subtropical coasts, and contains salt-tolerant trees with roots submerged in water.	17
14902607973	When the carbon in the ground is released into the air	Fossil fuel emissions	18
14902624263	When the atmospheric carbon store get transferred into the oceanic carbon store	Carbon Diffusion	19
14902641764	Photosynthesis	Plants use the sun's energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into sugars	20
14902652769	When organisms die, they eventually become this carbon store	Fossil Fuels	21
14902666983	The reservoir stage of the carbon cycle	Atmospheric carbon store	22
14902680777	What are the two major reservoirs in the carbon cycle?	Atmospheric and Oceanic carbon stores	23
14902724805	Nitrogen fixation	Process of converting nitrogen gas into ammonia	24
14902731401	Nitrification	ammonia is converted to nitrate ions (NO3-).	25
14902735630	Assimilation	Plants absorb nitrate and ammonia through their roots and use them for plant proteins and nucleic acids. Animals utilize nitrogen from plant tissues.	26
14902745214	Denitrification	Conversion of nitrates into nitrogen gas	27
14902749567	Decomposition	releases ammonium back into soil	28
14902795110	Two Main Reservoirs for the Nitrogen Cycle	Sediments and rocks, atmosphere	29
14902836629	Main Reservoir for Phosphorus	rocks and ocean sediments	30
14902842014	Euthrophication	fertilizer gets into water and kills the plants which creates dead zones that have no life in them	31
14902851401		DNA and RNA	32
14902854933	Decomposers	Releases phosphorus into soil	33
14902861852	Phosphorus Cycle	The movement of phosphorus atoms from rocks through the biosphere and hydrosphere and back to rocks.	34
14902873543	Evaporation	The change of a substance from a liquid to a gas	35
14902876450	Condensation	The change of state from a gas to a liquid	36
14902879352	Precipitation	Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface.	37
14902884373	Runoff	water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the ground	38
14902890958	Reservoir Stage in Water Cycle	Lakes, Oceans, Rivers, etc.	39
14903013563	gross primary productivity	The total amount of solar energy that producers in an ecosystem capture via photosynthesis over a given amount of time	40
14903016852	net primary productivity	the rate at which biomass accumulates in an ecosystem	41
14903020196	Producers	Organisms that make their own food	42
14903020197	Consumers	An organism that obtains energy and nutrients by feeding on other organisms or their remains.	43
14903032148	What trophic level is a patch of dandelions in?	Producers	44
14903045624	What trophic level would a rabbit be in?	1st level consumer	45
14903053340	Thermodynamics	study of the flow and transformation of energy in the universe	46
14903058329	How much energy is lost at each trophic level?	90%	47
14903062380	positive feedback loop	feedback loop that causes a system to change further in the same direction	48
14903067171	negative feedback loop	A feedback loop that causes a system to change in the opposite direction from which it is moving	49
14903084528	What gives out the most nutrients?	Decomposers	50