APES Unit 1 - 3

Biome with high productivity, warm temperatures and lots of sunlight.

• Temperate grassland

• Taiga

• Tropical rainforest

• Tundra

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Biome soil  is permafrost, low rain, low water draining and short plant roots

• Temperate grassland

• Taiga

• Tropical rainforest

• Tundra

Biome with thick forest, well adapted and has a short growing seasons.

• Taiga

• Temperate grassland

• Tundra

• Tropical rainforest

The net primary production of a pine forest on a lava flow on Mount Fuji is about  175,000kcal/m2/yr , and the plant respiration is estimated to be  115,000kcal/m2/yr . What is the total amount of energy transferred during photosynthesis for this ecosystem?

 

• 60,000kcal/m2/yr 

• 115,000kcal/m2/yr 

• 175,000kcal/m2/yr

• 290,000kcal/m2/yr

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

When a predator is introduced, what happens to the prey population?

• Stays the same

• Increase

• Decreases

• they both die off

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

If the prey population increases, that means

The predator population has

• Increased

• Decreased

• Died off

• Stayed the same

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

The primary energy source for producers in near-surface marine communities?

• Moon

• Wind

• Sun

• Oceans

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

 In the nitrogen cycle releases nitrogen gas into the atmosphere

• Assimilation

• Denitrification

• Nitrification

• Ammonification

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

When Nitrogen is taken up by plants

• Ammonification

• Denitrification

• Nitrification

• Assimilation

 Largest concentration of nitrogen is in 

• The ocean

• The atmosphere

• The mountains

• The corn fields