Ecosystems Overview
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Ecosystems OverviewQuestions
- How does an ecosystem differ from a community?
- How does an ecosystem differ from the biosphere?
- What are some examples of ecosystems?
- How does matter move through an ecosystem?
- How does water density affect marine life?
- How did the exchange of plants & animals alter the environment?
- What is a keystone species?
- How would a lack of water affect biotic factors in an ecosystem?
- What is the biosphere?
- What is a producers role in an ecosystem?
- What is a biophysical environment?
- What symbiotic relationships are seen in ecosystems?
- What is the most complex ecosystem in the world?
- How does adaptation affect the diversity of an ecosystem?
- What system facilitates the movement of water between spheres through process of transpiration?
- If a nutrient is in short supply in an ecosystem, how will it affect an organism?
- What is the primary productivity of an ecosystem?
- How do energy and nutrients move through an ecosystem?
- How many habitats may exist in one ecosystem?
- If frog feeds on insect larvae, what is the role of the frog in an ecosystem?
- How does water cycle through the nonliving part of the ecosystem?
- If two species overlap in their habitat use, how can both persist?
- Which spaces of the earth are part of the biosphere?
- The extinction of many species in a relatively short period of geologic time is called what?
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- How does the transfer of energy throughout an ecosystem begin?
- Which land ecosystem depends on a good root system?
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- What is the relationship between a decrease in available energy to the producers and the overall ecosystem?
- How would you describe the movement of energy in an ecosystem?
- What is the source of almost all of the energy in ecosystems?
- How are the flow of nutrients and energy through an ecosystem different?
- What is a keystone species? Why is the elimination of keystone species of such concern?
- What is the importance of matter cycles to an ecosystem?
- Why are coral reefs home to a huge diverse variety of species?
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- A species that is so important that if it goes extinct, the entire ecosystem collapses is called what?
- Why is sunlight an important abiotic factor in all aquatic ecosystems?
- In an ecosystem, what happens to the atom of certain chemical elements such as carbon oxygen, and nitrogen?
- How are littoral and riparian zones different?
- What is a terrestrial ecosystem?
- Why can the removal of one important species affect an entire ecosystem?
- A symbiotic relationship in which both participating species benefit is called?
- What is it called in a relationship when one organism is helped and another organism is neither helped nor hurt?
- Which type of ecological pyramid best traces the flow of matter through an ecosystem?