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Productivity Disturbance Diversity Food Web Biomes

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Resilience

When we take resources faster

than they are produced the

ecosystem will _____ biomass.

What is lose?(10 points)

Productivity is the ____ rate of the organisms

living in an ecosystem.

What is growth rate?

(20 points)

We can maintain sustainable

ecosystems by _______ the rate we

take resources.

What is balancing?

(30 points)

Photosynthesis requires the

following four resources.

What are sunlight, carbon dioxide, water, and nutrients?

(40 points)

The basic level of productivity is

influenced by two main factors which are

______________ and ___________.

What are the availability of resources, and diversity of the

ecosystem?

(50 points)

Disturbance to an area can be good and ___.

What is bad?

(10 points)

Disturbance varies in scale

from cataclysmic to ______.

What is minor?

(20 points)

The right amount of disturbance

can help to maintain an ecosystem’s

______.

What is diversity?

(30 points)

Diversity is maximized if the _____ between too

much and too little disturbance

realized.

What is balance?

(40 points)

Many of our actions add to ecosystem disturbance.

What rhymes with “solution” and can be

added to this list; Global warming, over-fishing, coastal development, ocean acidification,

invasive species.

What is pollution?

(50 points)

______ ecosystems are more resilient against

disturbance.

What is diverse?

(10 points)

One of the best strategies for

preserving resilience is to set aside and ______ areas.

What is protect?

(20 points)

Resilience needs ecosystem ____ to resist or recover

from disturbance.

What is diversity?

(30 points)

Intact ecosystems resist disturbance better and grow back faster than ones that have

lost _______.

What is diversity?

(40 points)

A healthy and resilient ecosystem needs: A source of

young, time to recover, and

_________.

What is a complete set of

species?

(50 points)

Diversity (or biodiversity) is

the _______ within and between living things.

What is variation?

(10 points)

Diversity affects the amount of

resources we can use ______.

What is sustainably?

(20 points)

Protecting against diversity ____ is crucial in

preserving a sustainable ecosystem.

What is loss?

(30 points)

Diversity affects an ecosystem’s abilitiy to resist

_______.

What is disturbance?

(40 points)

Diversity affects ecosystem ______,

increases _________, and maintains

________.

What is productivity,

resilience, and health?

(50 points)

This not so celestial animal

eats coral.

What is a starfish?

(crown-of-thorns)

(10 points)

A ______ is an animals that

eats only plants.

What is a herbivore?

(20 points)

“Carn” is a Latin word that means

_____.

What is flesh or meat?

(30 points)

English words that end with the

letters “vore” mean that they

are ______.

What are eaters or consumers?

(40 points)

The four “vores” are herbivore,

carnivore, omnivore, and

_______.

What is detritivore?

(50 points)

This biome covers

approximately 3/4 of the Earth’s

surface.

What is marine (or ocean) biome.

(10 points)

Biotic communities

include all living organisms

within an _____.

What is an ecosystem?

(20 points)

The area where two or more ecosystems

merge is called an______.

What is an ecotone?

(30 points)

Bios comes from the Greek word meaning ____.

What is life?

(40 points)

Earth is the only planet known to

have a ______.

What is a biosphere?

(50 points)

Make your wager

Maintaining a coral reef community is

expensive and takes away resources from human communities.

What is false?

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