POWER WORDS
Something that is not nor was ever a living thing.
What is an abiotic factor?
The two things producers need to take in, in order to do photosynthesis.
What are carbon dioxide and water?
The type of organisms that are at the bottom of the energy pyramid.
What are producers?
An organism that feeds on and breaks down dead or decaying plants and/or animals.
What is a decomposer?
A natural disaster created by movements in the Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
A single living thing. A life form.
What is an organism?
The two products of photosynthesis.
What are sugar and oxygen?
The trophic level that includes only organisms that eat producers.
What are primary consumers?
An organism that eats "already dead" consumers.
What is a scavenger?
A negative human impact that means cutting down large areas of a forest.
What is deforestation?
The outer layer of a leaf.
What is the epidermis?
During photosynthesis, light energy is converted to this type of energy.
What is chemical (or chemical energy)?
As you move UP the trophic levels, the number of populations __________.
What is decrease?
The type of relationship shown by a tick feeding off a deer.
What is a "parasite-host" relationship?
A way humans use light energy from the sun to generate power/energy.
What is by solar panels?
The organelle that is the site of photosynthesis in the cell.
What is a chloroplast?
The green pigment all producers have. It absorbs light energy.
What is chlorophyll?
The percentage of the energy that is passed on from one trophic level to the next for growth.
What is 10%?
A consumer that eats only producers.
What is an herbivore?
This creates a negative impact on local populations by hunting too many animals of a certain species.
What is poaching?
5 major abiotic factors.
What are rocks, air, temperature, sunlight, and water?
Besides plants, the other 2 major types of organisms that are producers?
What are algae and certain kinds of bacteria (cyanobacteria)?
The trophic level that converts light energy to chemical energy.
A spider builds a web in a field. The web catches grasshoppers, which the spider eats. What kind of relationship does the spider have with the grasshopper?
What is a "predator-prey" relationship?
The natural resource humans use that has a very limited supply.
What are fossil fuels?