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Worth of a species as an instrument or tool that can be used to accomplish a goal. Provisions, Regulation services, support systems, resilience, and cultural services
a) Ecological Effort
b) Instrumental Value
c) Intrinsic Value
d) Biomass

Total amount of solar energy that the producers in an ecosystem capture via photosynthesis over a given amount of time
a) Gross Primary Productivity
b) Ecological Efficiency
c) Net Primary Productivity
d) Biomass

Food chains that take into account of nature and show all connections between organisms
a) Food Chain
b) Trophic Pyramid
c) Trophic Levels
d) Food Web

Sequence of consumption from producers to top level of consumers
a) Food Web
b) Food Chain
c) Trophic Levels
d) Trophic Pyramid

Organisms that specialize in breaking down dead tissues and waste products
a) Decomposeres
b) Scavenger
c) Omnivores
d) Detritivores

Proportion of consumed energy that can be passed form one trophic level
a) Gross Primary Productivity
b) Net Primary Productivity
c) Ecological Efficiency
d) Instrumental Value

Ecosystems experiencing intermediate levels of disturbance are more diverse than those with high or low disturbance levels
a) Resistance resilience
b) Energy Quality
c) Biomass
d) Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis

Process that unlocks the chemical energy stored in cells of organisms
a) Binary Fission
b) Photosynthesis
c) Cellular Respiration
d) Transformation

Fungi and bacteria that complete the breakdown process by recycling the nutrients from dead tissues and wastes back into the ecosystem
a) Detritivores
b) Decomposeres
c) Scavenger
d) Omnivores

Producers convert CO2 into sugars. Sugars are converted back into CO2. Extraction of fossil fuels brings carbon to earth's surface where it is combusted. CO2 in atmosphere and CO2 dissolved in water are constantly exchange.
a) Carbon Cycle
b) Hydrologic Cycle
c) Phosphorus Cycle
d) Nitrogen Cycle

Nitrate transported through the soil with water
a) Assimilation
b) Nitrification
c) Leaching
d) Ammonification

Consume producers. Herbivore
a) Secondary Consumer
b) Tertiary Consumer
c) Top Carnivore
d) Primary Consumer

Goods that humans can directly use
a) Provisions
b) Human Needs
c) Ecosystem services
d) Sustainable Development

How much a disturbance can affect the flows of energy and matter
a) Resilience
b) Resistance
c) Restoration
d) Succession

Eat primary consumers. Carnivores
a) Secondary Consumers
b) Primary Consumers
c) Tertiary Consumer
d) Top Carnivore

Total Biomass present in an ecosystem at a particular time
a) Limiting Nutrients
b) Gross Primary Productivity
c) Standing Crop
d) Net Primary Productivity

Successive levels of organisms consuming each other
a) Trophic Pyramid
b) Food Chain
c) Food Web
d) Trophic Levels

Rate at which an ecosystem returns to its original state after a sisturbance
a) Resistance
b) Resilience
c) Restoration
d) Succession

Represent the distribution of biomass among trophic levels. Decrease by abut 10 percent each time
a) Trophic Levels
b) Trophic Pyramid
c) Food Web
d) Food Chain

All of the land in a given landscape that drains into a particular stream, river, lake, or wetland
a) Runoff
b) Ecological Footprint
c) Watershed
d) Ground Water

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