Posted on 24 October 2010. Tags: atmosphere, cellular respiration, chemical interactions, Community, cycle carbon, ecological community, ecological niche, energy relationships, finite temperature, food chains, oxidation of organic substances, photosynthesis, plants and animals, respiration, Water
Thermal Energy: Random kinetic energy possessed by objects in a material at finite temperature.
Photosynthesis: The process by which plants and other photoautotroph generate carbohydrates and oxygen from carbon dioxide, water, and light energy in chloroplasts
Producer: A producer is anything that can make its own food, like plants. Producers are usually the start of the food chain.
Cellular Respiration: The series of metabolic processes by which living cells produce energy through the oxidation of organic substances.
Consumer: animals or plants that cannot make their own food. They must eat or consume plants and animals for food
Ecological Niche: a term describing the relational position of a species or population in its ecosystem to each other
Food Chain: A succession of organisms in an ecological community that constitutes a continuation of food energy from one organism to another as each consumes a lower member and in turn is preyed upon by a higher member.
Trophic Level: A group of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain.
Food Web: A complex of interrelated food chains in an ecological community
Ecological pyramid: A pyramid-shaped diagram representing quantitatively the numbers of organisms, energy relationships, and biomass of an ecosystem; numbers are high for the lowest trophic levels (plants) and low for the highest trophic level (carnivores).
Biomass: The total mass of living matter within a given unit of environmental area
Biogeochemical Cycle: The chemical interactions that exist between the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere.
Water Cycle: The cycle of evaporation and condensation that controls the distribution of the earth’s water as it evaporates from bodies of water, condenses, precipitates, and returns to those bodies of water. Also called hydrologic cycle.
Carbon Cycle: The combined processes, including photosynthesis, decomposition, and respiration, by which carbon as a component of various compounds cycles between its major reservoirs-the atmosphere, oceans, and living organisms.
Nitrogen Cycle: A chain of thermonuclear reactions in which nitrogen isotopes are formed in intermediate stages and carbon acts essentially as a catalyst to convert four hydrogen atoms into one helium atom with the emission of two positrons. The entire sequence is thought to generate significant amounts of energy in the sun and certain other stars
Limiting Factors: The success of an organism is limited by the presence or absence of the factors necessary for survival. Often growth of a population is limited by an apparently minor factor in the environment, such as the presence of trace elements in the soil.
Tolerance Range: each ecosystems population’s ability to adjust to variations in its physical and chemical environment
Carrying Capacity: The maximum number of individuals that a given environment can support without detrimental effects
Biome: A major regional or global biotic community, such as a grassland or desert, characterized chiefly by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate.
Succession: The act or process of following in order or sequence.
Biodiversity: The variability among living organisms on the earth, including the variability within and between species and within and between ecosystems.
Invasive Species: Any species that has been introduced to an environment where it is not native, and that has since become a nuisance through rapid spread and increase in numbers, often to the detriment of native species.
Pollution: The act or process of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of soil, water, or the atmosphere by the discharge of harmful substances
Monoculture: A single, homogeneous culture without diversity or dissension.
Pest: An injurious plant or animal, especially one harmful to humans.
Leaching: To remove soluble or other constituents from by the action of a percolating liquid.
Pesticide: A chemical used to kill pests, especially insects
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Posted on 24 October 2010. Tags: agricultural lands, cheap labour, cheap transportation, fossil fuel resources, irrigation water, majority, marginal costs, monoculture crops, peack, player, trade, trade surpluses, Train, underground aquifers, Water
It’s no secret America’s dependency on cheap fossil fuel resources, an abundance of other non-renewables, and an enormous agricultural hearth. The economic activities associated with these have made America undisputably the major economic player in the world… in a historical context they’ve spurred on trade surpluses and major industry… nowadays I would argue you see it’s spinoffs with a nation that has the majority of the world’s purchasing power.
What do you think America should do to conserve this? Western agricultural lands will (if they haven’t already) start drying up… underground aquifers are running low, cheap irrigation water is stretching thin. Non-renewable fossil fuels are far past their peack domestically, with world peak supply coming soon…. they will inevitably grow too expensive to have cheap transportation to market, thereby increasing prices for common consumer goods. American industries are moving to other nations to exploit cheap labour to reduce marginal costs… this is obviously hurting secondary industries at home.
This train wreck is coming in one form or another so long as America’s economy continues it’s reliance on this. What would you propose the American peopel do about the following:
1) Industrial dismantling in the US
2) Water shortages threatening agricultural lands
3) Dependence on non-native monoculture crops that ruin ecologies of certain areas.
4) Dependence on non-renewable fossil fuels (the majority coming from foreign supplies).
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Posted on 24 October 2010. Tags: atmosphere, cellular respiration, chemical interactions, Community, cycle carbon, ecological community, ecological niche, energy relationships, finite temperature, food chains, oxidation of organic substances, photosynthesis, plants and animals, respiration, Water
Thermal Energy: Random kinetic energy possessed by objects in a material at finite temperature.
Photosynthesis: The process by which plants and other photoautotroph generate carbohydrates and oxygen from carbon dioxide, water, and light energy in chloroplasts
Producer: A producer is anything that can make its own food, like plants. Producers are usually the start of the food chain.
Cellular Respiration: The series of metabolic processes by which living cells produce energy through the oxidation of organic substances.
Consumer: animals or plants that cannot make their own food. They must eat or consume plants and animals for food
Ecological Niche: a term describing the relational position of a species or population in its ecosystem to each other
Food Chain: A succession of organisms in an ecological community that constitutes a continuation of food energy from one organism to another as each consumes a lower member and in turn is preyed upon by a higher member.
Trophic Level: A group of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain.
Food Web: A complex of interrelated food chains in an ecological community
Ecological pyramid: A pyramid-shaped diagram representing quantitatively the numbers of organisms, energy relationships, and biomass of an ecosystem; numbers are high for the lowest trophic levels (plants) and low for the highest trophic level (carnivores).
Biomass: The total mass of living matter within a given unit of environmental area
Biogeochemical Cycle: The chemical interactions that exist between the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere.
Water Cycle: The cycle of evaporation and condensation that controls the distribution of the earth’s water as it evaporates from bodies of water, condenses, precipitates, and returns to those bodies of water. Also called hydrologic cycle.
Carbon Cycle: The combined processes, including photosynthesis, decomposition, and respiration, by which carbon as a component of various compounds cycles between its major reservoirs-the atmosphere, oceans, and living organisms.
Nitrogen Cycle: A chain of thermonuclear reactions in which nitrogen isotopes are formed in intermediate stages and carbon acts essentially as a catalyst to convert four hydrogen atoms into one helium atom with the emission of two positrons. The entire sequence is thought to generate significant amounts of energy in the sun and certain other stars
Limiting Factors: The success of an organism is limited by the presence or absence of the factors necessary for survival. Often growth of a population is limited by an apparently minor factor in the environment, such as the presence of trace elements in the soil.
Tolerance Range: each ecosystems population’s ability to adjust to variations in its physical and chemical environment
Carrying Capacity: The maximum number of individuals that a given environment can support without detrimental effects
Biome: A major regional or global biotic community, such as a grassland or desert, characterized chiefly by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate.
Succession: The act or process of following in order or sequence.
Biodiversity: The variability among living organisms on the earth, including the variability within and between species and within and between ecosystems.
Invasive Species: Any species that has been introduced to an environment where it is not native, and that has since become a nuisance through rapid spread and increase in numbers, often to the detriment of native species.
Pollution: The act or process of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of soil, water, or the atmosphere by the discharge of harmful substances
Monoculture: A single, homogeneous culture without diversity or dissension.
Pest: An injurious plant or animal, especially one harmful to humans.
Leaching: To remove soluble or other constituents from by the action of a percolating liquid.
Pesticide: A chemical used to kill pests, especially insects
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Posted on 12 October 2010. Tags: Creatines, gym, muscles, Question., Water, Working
Many people claim that creatines only make your muscles absorb water so your muscles “look” and sometimes “feel” bigger and aren’t permanent results. What do creatines do for me in the gym is a question I ask myself often because I am not very affiliated with creatines and its effects on the muscles.
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Posted on 05 October 2010. Tags: algal bloom, atmosphere, biology book, biology questions, biotic and abiotic factors, competitive exclusion principle, Cycle, ecosystem, herbivore carnivore, nitrogen fixation, Predation, species population, Water, what is a limiting factor, what is transpiration
i forgot my biology book at school and i need help with these questions. any answer helps, i prefer complete sentence if you are willing, but if not, thanks anyway. so here are the questions.
1 What is ecology?
2 define: species; population; community; ecosystem; biome; biosphere;
Tell how these are related.
3 How is a habitat different from a niche;
4 What are biotic and abiotic factors?
5 What is the Competitive Exclusion Principle?
6 How is the movement of matter AND energy through an ecosystem different?
7 What are autotrophs? Give examples. What are heterotrophs? Give examples.
8 Name two ways autotrophic organisms can make their own food. How are these different?
9 What is a resource? A food chain? A food web? How are these related?
10 What is an herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, detritivore, decomposer,scavenger?
11 How do they get their energy? Be able to give examples of each of these.
12 What is a trophic level? What percentage of energy is passed on from one trophic level to the next?
13 What is a biogeochemical cycle?.
14 How do (water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus) atoms enter and leave the atmosphere, land, water, and cycle through the ecosystem?
15 In which cycle does the atmosphere NOT play a role?
16 Which biomolecules are important to living things and which cycles provide the atoms to build these?
17 What is transpiration? Nitrogen fixation? Denitrification? Evaporation? Condensation? Precipitation?
18 Which organisms play a role in these processes?
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19 NAME the 6 levels or organization that ecologists use
20 What are the ways organisms interact in an ecosystem? Define:(Competition, Predation, Symbiosis)
21 Name the 3 kinds of symbiosis? Identify examples of each?
21 What are some things organisms must compete for?
22 What is a limiting factor? How does it affect a population?
23 What is primary productivity? An algal bloom?
24 What happens when an over abundance of a limiting factor becomes available?
25 How do organisms cooperate? What is predation? What is a predator? Prey?
26 What are the 3 kinds of symbiosis? Be able to identify examples of each?
27. Name the two things that can affect the size of a population
28. What is exponential growth? Under what conditions does it occur in a population?
29. What is logistic growth?
30. Give two examples of density-dependent limiting factors? What does this type of limiting factor
rely on?
31. What is the difference between primary and secondary succession?
32. What kind of growth is represented by a S curve (as opposed to a J curve)
33. Explain the difference between a resource that is renewable and nonrenewable.
you do not have to answer all of them (you’d be AWSOME if you did though(: ) but try to answer one that hasnt been answered yet. THANK YOU!(:
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Posted on 30 September 2010. Tags: animals, Community, environment, fungi, ld, minerals, niche, organisms, plants, population, producers, soil, Time, Water
1. Which of the following is a living feature of the environment?
A-water
B-fungi
C-soil
lD-ight
2. Which of the following are nonliving features of the environment?
A-plants
B-animals
C-producers
D-minerals
3. The organisms of one species living together in the same place at the same time are a ____.
A-community
B-population
C-niche
D-all of the above
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