QUIZ BEE REVIEWER Spodosols – light gray in color, rich in aluminum and

iron
Physiology – study of function and processes in
living organisms Histosols – soil order found in wet and acidic bogs

Synecology – it focused on plant and animal Combustion – process by which fossil fuel release
communities in relation to the environment CO2

Landscape Ecology – refers to the relationship
between adjacent communities and ecosystem
Autecology – specialized field focused on the
individual and its environment
Omnivores – animals that eats both consumers and
producers
NPP – rate of energy storage in plant tissues in
excess of the rate of respiration by the plants
themselves
Denitrification – converts nitrate or nitrite back to
nitrogen
Sand – soil particle with the size of 0.002 – 0.05 mm

Saprophytic Chain – type of food chain that Silt – soil particle with the size of 0.05 – 2 mm
involves bacteria and other decomposers
Nitrogen Fixation – process that fixes nitrogen and
Mesophytes – require moderate amount of water reduces atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia

Non-succulent Perennials – usually shrubs that have NH4+ - symbol for ammonium; forms of nitrogen
small hard leaves which decrease water loss utilized by plants

Desert Perennials – plants that have well-adopted Floating Leaf Hydrophyte – Water Lily
life history
Suspended Hydrophyte – Phytoplankton
Biological Weathering – weathering caused by the
Grams – NPP is measured of
activities of living organisms

Detritus Feeder – diverse assemblage of organisms

from worms to vultures that live from the waste and
dead remains of other organisms

Biomass – dry weight of organic matter to particular

level

Alexander Van Humboldt – Father of Ecology

Henry Chandler Cowles – Father of Dynamic

Ecology

Rachel Carson – gave rise to the Modern

Environmental Movement

Frederic Clements – described plants as

superorganisms

Conservation Energy – specialized field about the

impacts of changing land and use in natural
ecosystems

Crown Fire – spread rapidly through the canopy,

killing trees and most vegetation from the ground
up

Aridosols – low in organic matter, dry, lighter in color

Mollisols – soil order found in frozen grassland