Main source of energy?
The sun
evaporation
Highest level of energy?
Bottom or producer
breaking down of dead organisms and organic waste?
Decomposers
organism that uses an outside energy souce such as the sun that produces its own food?
Producer
Process by which a gas changes to a liquid?
Condensation
Lowest level of energy?
Highest, or top Predator
What do animals release into the atmosphere after breathing?
carbon dioxide
What is a food web?
model of energy transfer that shows how a community are interconnected
process by which plants release water vapor through their leaves?
Traspiration
Model that shows the amount of energy avaible in each link of a food chain?
Energy Pyramid
Carbon can enter the enviroment throught what two things?
air, soil
Model that shows how energy flows in an ecosystem through feeding relationships?
food chain
Water in liquid or solid form that falls from the atmosphere is called?
Precipitation
Steps of a pyramid?
Trophic levels
Only eats meat?
Carnivore
series of chemical reactions that convert light energy, water, and carbon dixide into the food-energy molecule glucose and give off oxygen?
Photosynthesis
anything that has mass and trakes up space?
matter
What percent of energy goes down each level up the pyramid?
10%
Only eats plants?
Herbivore