Apes ch. 3 vocab

Question 1

community

Answer 1

all the population of different species in an area

Question 2

abiotic

Answer 2

nonliving

Question 3

biotic

Answer 3

biological components

Question 4

range of tolerance

Answer 4

to variation in the physical/ chemical environment

Question 5

limiting factor

Answer 5

too much/little of any biotic factor can limit/prevent growth of population even when others is at the best level

Question 6

chemosynthesis

Answer 6

convert inorganic compounds from their environment into more complex nutrient compounds w/o sunlight

Question 7

detritivores

Answer 7

insects/sacavengers that feed on waste/dead bodies of other organism

Question 8

biomass

Answer 8

dry weight of all organic matter contained in the level’s organism

Question 9

ecological efficiency

Answer 9

percentage of usable energy transferred as biomass from one level to the next

Question 10

net primary productivity

Answer 10

rate at which producers use photosynthesis to store energy
minus
rate what which they use the energy through aerobic respiration

Question 11

nitrogen fixation

Answer 11

bacteria convert gas nitrogen into ammonia NH3 which turns to ammonium NH4+

Question 12

denitrification

Answer 12

ammonia to nitrite then to nitrate

Question 13

ammonification

Answer 13

converting nitrogen to ammonia

Question 14

guano

Answer 14

excrement of seabirds/bats

Question 15

GIS

Answer 15

A GIS organizes, stores, and analyzes complex data collected over broad geographic areas.
Allows the simultaneous overlay of many layers of data.