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Gillambiology ch3-6
gillambiology ch 3-6 crossword questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ABYSSALPLAIN | What is the flat bottom of the deep ocean called? |
| ALASKA | What state was most affected by the Exon Valdez oil spill? |
| ALGAE | What does a GIANT SNAIL eat? |
| APHIDS | Ants and -?- often have a mutualistic relationship. |
| AUTOTROPHS | Organisms that make their own COM are called -?-. |
| AVERAGE | The climate is a description of the -?- condition over many years. |
| BACTERIA | figure 3-14 what organism removes nitrogen from the air? |
| BIASED | -?- presentation of facts can mislead people, without lying. |
| BIODIVERSITY | -?- is never considered a renewable resource because once a species goes extinct it can never be replaced. |
| BIOLOGICAL | What type of pest control is sustainable? figure 6-8 |
| BIOSPHERE | What is the next level (bigger and more complex) of organization above biome? |
| BOREALFOREST | What biome has the greatest variation of temperature in a year? |
| CARBOHYDRATES | Both photosynthesis and chemosynthesis produce -?- |
| CARBONDIOXIDE | The amount of -?- in the air affects the climate of the earth. |
| CFC | 30 years ago the over use of -?- had created a hole in the ozone layer that blocks harmful radiation. |
| COMMENSALISM | -?- occurs when two organism live closely together, one is benefitted and the other is unaffected. |
| COMMUNITY | What is the next level (bigger and more complex) of organization above population? |
| COMPUTERS | Super -?- are know for their ability to MODEL and solve complex problems while predicting the future. |
| CONE | The age-structure demographic diagram of a population with high birt rate and high death rate will look like a -?- |
| CONSERVATION | Zoos, national parks/wilderness, government regulations are all parts of man’s attempt at the -?- of species. |
| CURRENT | The weather is a description of the -?- conditions in an area. |
| DENSITY | The population -?- tells us how close together the individuals are. |
| DEPENDENT | figure 5-5, in this diagram there are more density -?- factors limiting population growth. |
| DESCRIBE | The first step in dealing with global climate change is to accurately -?- what is happening. |
| DISEASE | What density dependent factor apparently was limiting human population growth between 1000-1500 A.D. figure 5-10 |
| DISTURBANCES What causes ecosystems to be constantly changing? figure 4-9 | |
| ECOLOGY | The study of how organisms interact with their environments. |
| ENERGY | -?- flows through living systems like our biosphere. |
| ESPA | What law was passed in 1966, that made it illegal to do harm species of animals that had a low and decreasing population. |
| EXPONENTIAL | -?- populations growth is never sustainable. |
| EXTINCTION | Loss of habitat is the number one cause of species -?-. |
| FAST | Most of the resources on the Earth can be classified as renewable or nonrenewable based on how -?- we use them. |
| FEEDING | figure 4-5, The different species of birds in a spruce tree occupy different niches because their -?- heights are different. |
| FISHBONE | By EXPLORING ECOLOGY FROM SPACE we see a -?- pattern of rain forest clearing in Brazil. |
| FISHES | figure 3-8, what eats zooplankton? |
| FOSSILFUELS | The maximum sustainable population of the Earth (at least for now) has been greatly increased by the use of -?-. |
| FRUITFLY | According to DATA ANALYZING in ch-5, the carrying capacity of the -?- population is around 320 individuals. |
| FUEL | One man with a tractor and -?- can do the same work of 500 men 500 years ago. |
| HABITAT | Loss of -?- is a limiting factor that is independent of density. |
| HEAT | The climate of an area is affected by how the -?- on the earth is transported by winds and water currents. |
| HETEROTROPHS | Organisms that collect COM from their environment are -?-. |
| HIGH | In Africa they often have a high birth rate and a -?- death rate, and thus a stable population size. |
| INDUSTRIAL | Human activities such as modern agriculture, hunting, and the -?- revolution have had a great impact on the Earth’s landscape. |
| LATITUDE | The relative closeness of a location to the equator is known as the -?-, and has a great influence on the climate of that area. |
| LIMITING | The biological productions of an ecosystem often depends on the availability of one nutrient known as the -?- factor. |
| LOW | In Japan they have a low death rate and a -?- birth rate, and thus a stable population size. |
| MAGNIFICATION | In the process of biological -?- DDT became concentrated enough in eagles to lower the birth rate. figure 6-16 |
| MATTER | The water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles show us how -?- changes from a used state to a usable state. |
| MOLECULES | What is the next level (bigger) of organization above atoms? |
| MOOSES | figure 5-7, were there more mooses or wolves in 1980? |
| MUTUALISM | Type of symbiosis where both organisms are benefitted? |
| NICHE | No two species can occupy the same -?- at the same time. |
| NORTH | figure 4-3, what direction do the water currents flow off the West coast of South America? |
| ORGANIC | What does of “O” in COM stand for? |
| PERIWINKLE | What pink flower helps to treat cancer? figure 6-14 |
| PHOTOSYNTHESIS | figure 3-13, what is one process that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere? |
| PHYTOPLANKTON | What are the primary producers of COM in aquatic ecosystems? |
| PIONEER | During ecological succession, a -?- species is the first to appear. |
| PREDATION | -?- occurs when one organism catches and eats another. |
| PREDATORS | The removal of elk -?- from Yellowstone eventually resulted in a crash in the elk population. |
| PREDICT | The third step in dealing with global climate change is to accurately -?- how things will be changing. |
| PURIFICATION | The ecosystem provides us the service of -?- of water. figure 6-22 |
| PYRAMID | The biomass in a -?- goes down by 90% for every level you go up. |
| RECYCLED | Atoms are -?- by living systems like our biosphere. |
| REGULATIONS | Government -?- try to reduce the impact of human activities on the Earth to a sustainable level. |
| RENEWABLE | What type of energy sources will never run out? |
| SALT | 97% of the water on the earth is -?- water. |
| SPECIES | In the early days of Yellowstone the caretakers did not understand the complex interactions between -?-. |
| SPREADOUT | figure 4-2, at higher latitudes solar energy is more -?-. |
| SULFURDIOXIDE | What chemical comes from industry smoke stacks (burning coal) and contributes to the problem of acid rain? ch-6 |
| SUSTAINABLE | A high birth rate and low death rate is not -?-. |
| TEMPERATEFOREST | What type of biome does Germany have? |
| TEMPERATURE | A climate chart shows the -?- and the rainfall for each month. |
| THOUSAND | figure 3-7 (and the 10x rule) it would take 300 -?- pounds of algae to sustain a 30 pound shark? |
| TROPICALSAVANNA | What biome is always warm and has the most rainfall in May? |
| UNLIMITED | In the presence of -?- resources, a population can grow exponentially. |
| WEBS | Food -?- are often used to illustrate who eats what because food chains are often not linear. |
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