Ecosystem
What is an ecosystem?
All Living things and non-living things in an environment.
What are producers?
They make their own food/energy source from the sun (mostly) and other materials.
What is the definition of a cycle?
Any complete round or series of occurrences that are repeated
What are macromolecules?
a molecule containing a very large number of atoms, such as a protein, nucleic acid, or synthetic polymer.
What is the differnce between a plant cell and a Animal cell?
Plant cells have a Cell wall.
What are Abiotic factors?
Non-living parts of an ecosystem. (Rocks, sun, plastic, minerals, metals, water, etc)
What are the 4 consumers?
Carnivores
Herbivores
Omnivores
Decomposers
What happens in the water cycle? Name Three things that happen.
Evaporation
condensation
precipitation
What are the 4 types of large organic molecules?
Proteins
carbohydrates
Lipids
Muclecic acids
What are lipids?
Fatty molecules
What are Biotic factors?
Living parts of an ecosystem.
What are producers also known as?
autotrophs
What is the Carbon cycle?
the series of processes by which carbon compounds are interconverted in the environment, involving the incorporation of carbon dioxide into living tissue by photosynthesis and its return to the atmosphere through respiration, the decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels.
What is the most common of the 4?
Carbohydrates
What is the Mitacondra?
Power house of the cell
What is biodiversity?
The measurement of the amount of variation of life that exists in a given area.
What are consumers also known as?
Heterotrophs
What is Evapotranspiration?
Water is soaked into the roots of a plant and the water evaporates from tiny openings called Stoata.
What is the chemical make up of Carbohydrates?
(CHO) Carbon Hydrogen and oxygen
What is primary seccession?
Bacteria, lichens and weather breakdown rock in soil.
What is the letter that represents Carrying capacity?
K
In what order do, Producers, secondary consumers, apex predators, tertiary consumers, and primary consumers come in on the Trophic level pyramid?
(From bottom to top)
Producers
primary consumers
secondary consumers
tertiary consumers
apex preditor
What is Sublimation?
Conversion of a solid to a gas with no liquid stage.
What is the chemical make up of Muclecic acids?
(CHOWP) Carbon hydrogyn ocogyn nigtrogyn pentose
What does primary succession start with?
Bare rock