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ecology
biology EOC study guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is abiotic factors | nonliving factors of an environment such as temperature, wind, water that affect the living factors |
| what is biotic factors | livingfactors of an environment (predatorslimit popultions of prey) |
| what is carbon cycle | plant take co2 and turn it into sugar in the process of photosynthesis |
| what is food chains | show the transfer of energy from one organism to another |
| what is food web | show all the transfer in an ecosystem |
| what is climate change | humans burns fossil fuels which add extra co2 to the atmosphere & nature processes such as volcanoes can produce excess co2 which can also lead to climate change |
| what is habitat destruction | caused by deforestation and acid rain can lead to the endangerment of species |
| what is phototropism | cells on the side of the plant opposing sun elongate so that the leaves turn towards the sun |
| what is geotropism | when seeds germinate the roots always grow down and the stem up regadless of how the seed is oriented |
| what is thigmotropism | plants exposed to lots of wind grow shorter and stouter than those that are not, also some plants curl up when touched or at dark |