Trophic Levels/Energy Flow/Food Web
The third trophic level
What is a secondary consumer?
Invasive species are what to the ecosystem
Harmful
The process that brings nitrogen into the soil by conveying nitrogen gas to ammonia
Nitrogen Fixation
DDT
What is chemical pesticides?
Chameleons do this to hide from prey
Camouflage
These organisms produce their own food through photosynthesis
What is a plant?
True or False: Invasive species are harmless
False
The bacteria convert ammonia to nitrates
Nitrification
Effects of DDT
Affected reproductive abilities
Bears do this in the winter
Hibernate
True or False: Energy decreases as it moves up the Trophic level
True
On problem caused by invasive animals
They affect their ecosystem
Plants uptake ammonium and nitrates to build biomolcules
Assimilation
An example of Biomagnification
Mercury
Gees move south to
Migrate
Animals that only eat plants
What is a primary consumer?
One animal that can become invasive if put in a new environment
Lionfish
Nitrogen compounds the decomposed organism and converts into ammonia
Ammonification
Define Biomagnifications
What happens when toxins become more and more contracted
The male Peacocks do this to impress the female
Courtship
This term describes animals that eat both plants and other animals
What is a omnivore?
True or False: Invasive Species can harm native plants and animals
True
Bacteria converts nitrates into nitrogen gas
Denitrification
True Or False: Bugs that live through theses pesticides are not affected
False
Spadefoot toads do this when the weather is to hot
Estivation