Biosphere Review

Living organisms

• Biotic

• Abiotic

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Non-living factors of an environment

• Biotic

• Abiotic

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Occurs slowly, requires pioneer species, nothing previously there or previous ecosystem completely wiped out from a major disaster

• Primary Succession

• Secondary Succession

Faster, soils undisturbed, same (or similar) climax community

• Primary Succession

• Secondary Succession

Select the example of Secondary Succession

• A forest grows back after a fire destroys old/weak vegetation, soils undisturbed (ashes actually add nutrients to the soil).

• A meteorite vaporizes an entire ocean, a desert forms in its place.

• An area is uncovered by a retreating glacier, allowing for a new ecosystem to form.

• A volcanic eruption covers an entire grassland in many feet of lava, which hardens into stone.

The first organisms to settle a new area

• Pioneer Species

• Primary Consumer

• Secondary Consumer

• Tertiary Consumer

Many different species living in the same area.

• Population

• Community

• Biome

• Biosphere

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Nutrients such as water, carbon dioxide, oxygen, and nitrogen move in and out of the biosphere in ______.

• Biogeochemical cycles

• food webs

• food chains

• energy flow

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Why would Carbon and Oxygen have similar cycles in the biosphere?

• Cyclical relationship of Photosynthesis

• Just coincidence

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The process of turning Nitrogen gas into ammonia

• Nitrogen Fixation

• Ammonification

• Denitrification

• Nitrification

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