Properties of Water
This property of water refers to its ability to stick to itself, resulting in high surface tension.
What is cohesion?
These organisms are the foundation of the food web, producing their own food through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.
What are producers?
This process uses light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
This term refers to the number of offspring born into a population during a specific time period.
What is birth rate?
This type of succession occurs in an area that previously had no soil, such as after a volcanic eruption or a glacier retreat.
What is primary succession?
Water can absorb and release a large amount of heat with only a small change in temperature. This is due to its high __________.
What is specific heat capacity?
These organisms consume plants or algae and are known as herbivores in a food web. They form the second trophic level.
What are primary consumers?
The byproducts of cellular respiration include carbon dioxide, water, and this energy molecule, which is used by cells to perform work.
What is ATP?
When individuals leave a population and move to another area, this movement is called __________.
What is emigration?
These early-arriving species, like lichens and mosses, are the first to colonize an area during primary succession.
What are pioneer species?
When water freezes, it expands and becomes less dense than its liquid form. This unique behavior allows ice to __________.
What is float on water?
This process describes the transfer of energy from one trophic level to the next, where only about ____% of the energy is passed on to the next level.
10%
This is the organelles where photosynthesis and cellular respiration take place, albeit in different processes.
What is the mitochondrion for cellular respiration and chloroplast for photosynthesis?
These are non-living environmental factors, such as temperature and water availability, that can limit the growth of a population.
What are abiotic factors?
After a forest fire, this type of succession occurs, since soil and some organisms are still present in the area.
What is secondary succession?
Water is often called the "universal solvent" because it can dissolve a wide range of substances. This is due to its __________ nature.
What is polarity?
These organisms, like bacteria and fungi, break down dead organisms and waste, recycling nutrients back into the ecosystem.
What are decomposers?
This molecule, produced during photosynthesis, is used by organisms during cellular respiration to release energy.
What is glucose?
This is the maximum number of individuals that an environment can support over time, given the availability of resources.
What is carrying capacity?
In primary succession, after pioneer species like mosses break down rock into soil, these types of plants are the next to establish themselves.
What are grasses and small plants?
The ability of water to move upward through plant roots and stems, despite gravity, is due to its combination of cohesion and this other property.
What is adhesion?
In a food web, energy decreases as you move up each trophic level, meaning the number of organisms at higher levels is usually __________.
What is smaller or fewer?
This molecule, produced as a byproduct of cellular respiration, is used by plants in the process of photosynthesis to create glucose.
What is carbon dioxide?
A population's growth rate can be influenced by the balance between births, deaths, immigration, and emigration, and by limiting factors such as _________ (e.g., food, space, predators).
What are limiting factors?
This branch of biology studies the interactions between organisms and their environment.
What is ecology?