Homeostasis Storyline Review

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What happens to breathing rate, blood flow, and oxygen intake as exercise increases?

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Breathing rate increases, blood flow increases, intake of O2 increases.

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What is the term for the variety of life in an area or ecosystem?

Back

Biodiversity.

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What do we call non-living components of an ecosystem?

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Abiotic factors.

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How does less environmental resistance affect the carrying capacity of a fish population?

Back

It increases.

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What is a heterotroph that regulates the health of an ecosystem and causes a large negative effect if removed?

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Keystone species.

Front

Define homeostasis in biological systems.

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Homeostasis is the process by which living organisms maintain a stable internal environment despite external changes.

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What are limiting factors in an ecosystem?

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Limiting factors are environmental conditions that restrict the growth, abundance, or distribution of an organism or a population.

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What is the role of biodiversity in an ecosystem?

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Biodiversity contributes to ecosystem resilience, productivity, and stability.

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What is the difference between biotic and abiotic factors?

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Biotic factors are living components of an ecosystem, while abiotic factors are non-living components.

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What is a trophic cascade?

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A trophic cascade is an ecological phenomenon triggered by the addition or removal of top predators, which causes changes in the population sizes of species at lower trophic levels.