Match Each Description with the Appropriate Scientific Term

question 37

Multiple Choice

Match each description with the appropriate scientific term.
-predicts what would happen if an ecosystem was changed

• A)biogeochemical cycles
• B)ecological efficiency
• C)ecological pyramid
• D)generalized compartment model
• E)gross primary productivity
• F)limiting nutrient
• G)net primary productivity
• H)pyramid of biomass
• I)secondary productivity
• J)simulation modelling
• K)standing crop biomass
• L)trophic cascade

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Definitions:

Peer Influence

The influence that the attitudes, values, and behaviors of peers exert on an individual's personal attitudes, values, and behaviors.

Role Confusion

A situation in which an individual lacks clarity about his or her role, often seen in adolescence as part of identity development according to Erikson's stages of psychosocial development.

Temperament

An individual’s innate style of responding to the environment, including their typical mood, activity level, and emotional reactivity, often seen as the precursor to personality.

Pruning Process

The natural neurological process in which synapses that are seldom used are eliminated, which occurs mostly during early brain development.