Food Web/Pyramid
This type of organism uses sunlight to produce food for itself. Plants are an example of this
Producer
Predation
Where is water found as a gas?
The atmosphere
Carbon enters the soil as a solid from organisms through this process. It happens with waste and dead things
Decomposition of Organic Matter
2This form of nitrogen is found in the atmosphere
N2 / Nitrogen Gas
This type of organism eats producers.
Primary Consumer
A tick attaches to a dog. It starts sucking the blood of the animal. This provides a meal for the tick, and harms the dog by removing blood. What is the best way to describe this relationship?
Parasitism
When water falls from the atmosphere to the earth, it is called:
Precipitation
This process allows plants to take in CO2 from the atmosphere, and use the carbon to create sugars
Photosynthesis
This type of bacteria turns nitrogen gas into ammonium
Nitrogen fixing bacteria
This type of organism eats animals that eat animals that eat plants
ex.
Grass-->mouse-->snake-->eagle
Tertiary consumer
A tapeworm enters a sheep. It latches onto the intestines, and absorbs nutrients from the food the sheep eats. This takes nutrients away from the sheep, and the tapeworm gets a meal.
Parasitism
When surface water infiltrates into the earth's surface and stays underground, it becomes
Groundwater
This process takes air into an organism, and produces CO2 gas from that organism
Respiration
This type of organism can take in nitrogen from soil sources, where it is eaten by other organisms
plants/producers
If a producer has 3,500 KCal, how many KCal will a primary consumer get from eating it? (1 step in the food pyramid)
350 KCal
the Acacia tree has adapted chambers that house ants. The ants live in these chambers, and attack intruders when the tree is harmed. The tree gains protection, and the ants gain shelter.
Mutualism
This process turns gaseous water into liquid water
Condensation
This source of carbon is deep underground before it is pulled up for human use
Fossil fuels (oil, coal, etc)
This type of bacteria takes ammonium, and turns it into nitrates and nitrites
nitrifying bacteria
Detritivores/ Decomposers
The remora attaches itself to sharks, and hitches a ride. It also eats the scraps of the shark's food. The shark is not harmed at all by this attachment, and the remora gets a ride and a meal.
Commensalism
This process takes liquid water within a plant, and evaporates it to cool the plant itself (don't say evaporation
transpiration
This reaction turns fossil fuels into CO2 gas in the atmosphere
Combustion
This type of bacteria takes nitrogen in the soil, and turns it back into nitrogen gas
denitrifying bacteria