Ecosystems
What is a Food Chain?
a diagram that shows energy transformations between organisms
What is a Cycle?
Any complete round or series of occurrences that are repeated
What are the first species to colonize new land?
Bacteria, Lichens
What is a macromolecule?
a molecule containing a very large number of atoms, such as a protein, nucleic acid, or synthetic polymer
What is a cell?
The basic membrane-bound unit that contains the fundamental molecules of life and of which all living things are composed.
What is a Food Web?
A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
What is CO2?
Carbon Dioxide
What are a few examples of intermediate species?
Grasses, shrubs and shade-intolerant trees
What is a carbohydrate?
a macromolecule that contains only carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms (CHO)
What is 6 co2 + 6 h2o -> c6h12o6 + 6 02?
The chemical equation of Photosynthesis
What is a trophic level?
Each step of a food chain
What is it called when water is released into the air by plants?
Transpiration
What are a few examples of climax community species?
Mature oak, hickory, and other shade-tolerant species?
What is a Lipid?
a macromolecule that contains hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon formed into a Glycerol and multiple fatty acids (CHO)
what is the plasma membrane made of?
Lipids
What trophic level is on the top?
An Apex Predator
What is Sublimation?
When Gas turns into a Solid without hitting the Water stage
Name every stage in secondary succession.
Established climax community, Disturbance such as fire, annual plants, grasses and perennials, grasses, pines, shrubs, young oak and hickory, and last, Mature oaks and hickory forests.
What is a Protein?
A macromolecule that contains only carbon, Hydrogen, oxygen, and Nitrogen (CHON)
What reads RNA and makes proteins (Or viruses) using the information stored in it?
Ribosomes
How much energy is lost in every trophic level?
90%
Name four items recycled by Cycles.
Water, Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus
Name every stage in Primary succession.
Bare rock, lichens, Small annual plants and lichens, Grasses and perennials, grasses, shrubs and shade-intolerant trees such as pine, and last but not least, shade-tolerant trees such as oak
What is a Nucleic acid?
a macromolecule containing only carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus (CHONP)
What does DNA stand for?
What is it made of?
Deoxyribonucleic Acid
molecules called nucleotides(ATGC)