More APES

Question 1

First Law of Thermodynamics

Answer 1

Energy cannot be created nor destroyed - it can only be converted from one form to another

Question 2

Second Law of Thermodynamics

Answer 2

As energy is used, entropy increases (some of it is lost as heat)

Question 3

GPP

Answer 3

Total amount of carbon taken up by plants.

Question 4

NPP

Answer 4

GPP minus respiration (R).

Question 5

Parasitism

Answer 5

An interaction in which one organism lives on or in another organism

Question 5

Mutualism

Answer 5

An interaction between two species that increase the chances of survival or reproduction for both species

Question 6

Commensalism

Answer 6

A relationship between species in which one benefits & the other is neither harmed nor helped

Question 7

Competition

Answer 7

The struggle of individuals to obtain a shared limited resource. Exclusion principle states that two species competing for the same limiting resource cannot coexist.