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ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY ((secondary consumer (fox eating rabbit), primary…

- - - - s a transition area between two biomes. It is where two communities meet and integrate.
  - - - which other organisms gain energy from eating the tissues of producers.
    - - The total amount of solar energy that the producers in an ecosystem capture via photosynthesis over a given amount of time.
    - - The energy captured (GPP) minus the energy respired by producers.
  - - - The amount of biomass present in an ecosystem at a particular time
    - - the proportion of consumed energy that can be passed from one trophic level to another
    - - The energy in an ecosystem is measured in terms of biomass
    - - The representation of the distribution of biomass among trophic levels
    - - The movement of water through the biosphere.
  - - - The combined amount of evaporation and transpiration.
    - - When water moves across the land surface into streams and rivers, eventually reaching the ocean.
  - - - the most abundant element in the atmosphere
    - - major component of DNA, RNA and ATP (molecule used by cells to transfer energy).
    - - Sulfur is important for the functioning of proteins and enzymes in plants, and in animals that depend upon plants for sulfur.
    - - Ecological limiting factors
    - - An event caused by physical, chemical or biological agents that results in changes in population size or community composition.
    - - All of the land in a given landscape that drains into a particular stream, river, lake or wetland.
  - - - A measure of how much a disturbance can affect its flows of energy and matter.
    - - The rate at which an ecosystem returns to its original state after a disturbance.
    - - A new scientific discipline that is interested in restoring damaged ecosystems
  - - - Goods that humans can use directly.
    - - The service provided by natural systems that helps regulate environmental conditions.
    - - The support services that natural ecosystems provide such as pollination, natural filters and pest control.
    - - Ecosystems provide cultural or aesthetic benefits to many people.
- - - - Atmospheric pressure and density decreases in each of these layers as they extend out to space.
    - - location of the auroras and Interaction between solar energy and gas molecules.
    - - % of the incoming light that is reflected from the surface
  - - - ess dense air rises, denser air sinks.
      - water vapor capacity
        
        warm air has a higher capacity for water vapor than cold air.
    - - when water vapor in the atmosphere condenses into liquid water and energy is released
  - - - Coriolis Effect- the deflection of an object's path due to Earth's rotation.
  - - - the large-scale patterns of water circulation.
    - - as the surface currents separate from one another, deeper waters rise and replace the water that has moved awa
    - - another oceanic circulation that drives the mixing of surface water and deep water.