Trophic Levels and Food Webs
Ecosystems
Biomes
Wet-Lands
Cycles
100
Herbivores occupy this spot on the trophic pyramid.
What is "Primary Consumer"
100
An interaction in which one organism lives on or in another, often referred to as the host
Parasitism
100
This biome has high temperatures and little to no rainfall.
Dessert or subtropical dessert
100
The area where rivers flow into oceans. Typically having good productivity of aquatic life.
Estuary
100
Water moving from rain to rivers to aquifers only to flow out to sea and be evaporated once more.
Water Cycle, Hydrologic cycle
200
Organisms on each level of the trophic pyramid use ___% of their energy before it is passed to the next level
What is "90%"
200
Two species living in a long term association with one another.
Symbiosis
200
An area where a particular species lives in nature
Habitat
200
Biome that is submerged at least a portion of the year. Shallow and can support emergent vegetation.
Freshwater wetlands
200
This cycle involves gases released from burning of fossil fuels and plants/algae.
Carbon Cycle
300
Gets energy from eating other organisms
Consumer
300
When two organisms use the same resource different ways to minimize competiton
Resource partitioning
300
Cold Biome with low growing vegetation and no trees
Tundra
300
Area of the coast that supports marine life often between high and low tide.
Intertidal Zone
300
One of the slowest cycles, responsible for one of the key fertilizer components and the only one that does not readily involve the air
Phosphorus cycle
400
Shows a simple connection between organisms moving up the trophic levels
What is " Food Chain"
400
A remora and shark are an example of which type of interaction
Mutualism
400
What biome is represented in the chart below
Boreal Forrest, Temperate Rainforest
400
These areas made of trees, whos roots are submerged in water, often prevent massive damage from hurricanes.
Mangrove swamp
400
The process in the Nitrogen cycle that convers N2 to usable Nitrogen forms later used in nitrification
Nitrogen fixation
500
Shows a complex connection between organisms in the same ecosystem.
What is "Food Web"
500
An interaction in which one organism benefits and the other is not affected.
Commensalism
500
All land based biomes
Terrestrial Biomes
500
Area of the deep ocean or pond without sunlight.
aphotic zone or abyssal zone
500
The term for the water lost to the atmosphere from photosynthesis.
Transpiration