Vocabulary
A series of steps that show the transfer of energy between organisms.
What is a food chain?
The level of the energy pyramid that has access to the most energy.
What are producers? or the bottom layer.
A glacier melting away an leaving bare rock is what type of succession
what is primary?
Dry, hot temperatures
animals such as lizards, scorpions, and rattle snakes.
plants such as cacti
What is the desert?
An organism that breaks down/recycles dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
The amount of energy that is passed from trophic level to trophic level.
What is 10%?
Remora fish attach themselves to sharks and travel and feed on the leftovers. The shark is not affected.
What is commensalism?
Extremely cold and dry climate
Plants such as lichen and mosses
Polar bears, penguin, and artic hare
What is the Tundra?
Which level of an energy pyramid would have access to 1% of total energy?
What is secondary consumer, or third layer?
Limiting engines that use fossil fuels to power automobiles would lower the amount of __________ released into the atmosphere?
What is Carbon?
Cold temperature, some precipitation
Evergreen trees
bears, snow owls, moose
What is the taiga?
An organism that eats producers and consumers
What is a omnivore?
Out of the following organisms, which one would be most likely found in the teriary level of an energy pyramid...
-grass
-mouse
-hawk
-grasshopper
What is the Hawk?
A tornado blows through the grasslands wiping out the environment would be an example of which type of succession?
What is secondary?
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food. It is not a symbiotic relationship.
What is predation?
Hot and humid climate with heavy rainfall
broad leaf plants and many trees
jaguar, monkey, and frogs
What is the rainforest?
The process that occurs in an area that once had life but was destroyed by a natural disaster or human impact
What is a secondary succession?
What two processes release carbon into the atmosphere?
What is burning fossil fuels and respiration?
4 seasons
trees that lose their leaves
deer, opossum, and fox
What is the temperate deciduous forest?