AP Environmental

In what process is Carbon transformed into chemical energy?

• Photosynthesis

• Respiration

• Primary Production

• Secondary Production

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What is the main factor that separates the biomes?

• Land

• Water

• Climate

• Longitude

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Which biome is the driest?

• Desert

• Tundra

• Taiga

• Rainforest

Which biome has coniferous trees (which don't lose their leaves)?

• Taiga

• Temperate Forest

• Tundra

• Grasslands

Temperature, nutrient availability, and lightning are examples of:

• Climate

• Abiotic Factors

• Weather

• Biotic Factors

A community is:

• A group of organisms with interspecific interactions.

• A group of organisms with intraspecific interactions.

• A group of organisms with interspecific and abiotic interactions

• A group of organisms with interspecific and abiotic interactions.

The 10% rule states that:

• 10% of energy is lost as you go up each trophic level.

• Only about 10% of energy moves up the trophic level.

• The maximum amount of energy at the top of a trophic pyramid is 10%

• 10% of organisms die at each trophic level.

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Food chains show

• As many relationships as it can between species in an ecosystem

• One pathway energy or matter could take through an ecosystem.

• Which predators eat which prey species in an ecosystem.

• The amount of energy available at each trophic level.

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Energy pyramids show

• The amount of mass at each of the trophic levels.

• The number of organisms at each trophic level.

• The importance of species at each trophic level.

• The amount of energy at each trophic level

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Autotrophs

• Always do photosynthesis

• Produce their own energy

• Eat other organisms for energy

• Eat plants

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