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14.1 Ecology and Environment
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List 3 abiotic factors in the environment of a fish.
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List 3 biotic factors in the environment of a song bird.
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- What is the difference between the terms ecosystem and
environment?
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14.2 The Organization of
Ecological Systems | - Describe two ways that decomposers differ from herbivores.
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- Name an organism
that would occupy each of the following trophic levels: the producer trophic
level, the second trophic level, the third trophic level.
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- What is the difference between an ecosystem and a community
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14.3 The Great Pyramids: Energy, Number, Biomass
| - Describe the flow of energy through an ecosystem
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- Why is there usually a
larger herbivore biomass than a carnivore biomass?
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- Can energy be recycled
through an ecosystem? Explain why or why not.
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14.4 Community Interactions | -
Why is a food web better than a food chain as
a way to describe a community?
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- As the populations of insects drops in the
autumn, what would you expect to happen to the populations of birds?
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14.5 Types of Communities
| - List a predominant abiotic factor in each of
the following biomes: temperate deciduous forest, boreal coniferous forest,
grassland, desert, tundra, temperate rainforest, tropical rainforest, and
savanna.
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- List a dominant producer organism typical of
each of the following biomes: temperate deciduous forest, boreal coniferous
forest, grassland, desert, tundra, temperate rainforest, tropical rainforest,
and savanna.
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14.6 Succession
| - How does primary succession differ from
secondary succession?
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- How does a climax community differ from a
successional community?
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14.7 Human Use of Ecosystems
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Describe the steps in
secondary succession of abandoned farmland to a climax community.
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Describe the steps in
succession of a pond to a climax community.
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Why must people who live in countries that are
not able to produce surplus food eat grains?
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- Define productivity.
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What impact does human use of ecosystems
have on succession?
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