Darius Heard Bozeman Science: Ecosystems Guided Viewing 1: What is primary productivity? What do we measure it in?

(Units) How much bio mass/live able mass the animals in that ecosystem are lying down depending on where you are on the planet because you can have a low or high level of primary productivity. 2: What are producers? Who are the main producers in the ocean? How is this measured in an aquatic environment? Those who use photosynthesis such as plants to survive, coral reefs would be considered a main producer in the ocean. Whats measured in an aquatic environment would be the oxygen being produced. 3: What is a trophic level? List and define the trophic levels. (Give examples) In which direction does the arrow go in a food web? Explain. A trophic level is basically an eating level. 1. Producers: Convert energy from the sun into live able materials 2. Consumers: Cant make their own food, Feed on producers 3. Second Level Consumers: Feed on First level consumers 4. Third Level Consumer: Feed on Second level Consumers Arrow from 1 goes to 2 then goes to 3 then finally at 4. Goes from what eats that to that to that. 4: What is a food web? How is it different than food chains? A food web is when you show all the trophic levels and how they all co-exist and depend on one another. Shows the interaction of every organism. 5: Explain the limiting factors for growth in ecosystems. Explain logistic growth. Logistic basically means that all living things are going to meet their limit their carrying capacity. 6: What is the carrying capacity (K) of an ecosystem? The maximum capacity an ecosystem can support of that pacific population. K = Limit = Carrying capacity 7: What factors affect the carrying capacity of a population? Explain how wolves and elk populations are linked and how they will reach equilibrium. Competition. If you have too many wolves then youre going to start to have a decrease in elk population but if you have an increase in elk population then youre going to have an increase in wolfs population. And this is called equilibrium. 8: Summarize the story of the Whitebark Pine and how humans can impact an entire ecosystem by choices we make (directly or indirectly). Global warming is causing warming conditions in Whitebark pine and white park pine cant deal with that. An as a result squirrels arent going to have nuts that they can actually stash grizzly bears arent gone have pine nuts because this food chain is tied to the environment so human impacts are so vast and large that it changes a lot of things in a short period of time.