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Unit 3 - Topic 2 Ecosystem Dynamics

Horizontales
What are the final and stable communities in ecological succession called?
What term describes the total mass of living organisms in a given area?
What do food chains, webs, and pyramids illustrate in ecosystems?
What's the level of the food chain where herbivores feed on plants?
Pioneer species' ability to convert atmospheric nitrogen into a usable form is called what?
Which curve represents exponential growth in population?
What factors determine the carrying capacity of a population?
In a food chain, which trophic level includes predators that feed on herbivores?
What's the process by which energy is emitted from the Earth's surface in the form of heat?
How does energy move when it strikes a surface and bounces back?
Which index is used to estimate population size from collected data?
What's the approximate proportion of energy transferred from one trophic level to the next is ____ percent.
Role of an organism within its habitat, including its feeding relationships.
What's the process by which solar energy is transformed into chemical energy within ecosystems?
Verticales
What's the term for the maximum number of individuals of a species that an environment can sustain?
What's the term for the complex interconnections of feeding relationships in an ecosystem?
Pioneer species' ability to withstand harsh environments is known as what?
What type of growth curve depicts a population reaching its carrying capacity?
Type of ecological succession in which plants and animals first colonize a barren, lifeless habitat
What's the process by which water vapor turns into liquid water, forming clouds?
a plant or animal that plays a unique and crucial role in the way an ecosystem functions
What's the term for the conversion of nitrates and nitrites back into atmospheric nitrogen by denitrifying bacteria?
Succession that occurs in areas where a community that previously existed has been removed;
Which biogeochemical cycle involves the movement of carbon between the living and non-living components of the environment?
What's the process by which energy is absorbed by substances upon contact?
What term describes the initial colonizers in an ecological succession?
What are the primary producers in an ecosystem, capturing energy from the sun?