Abiotic or Biotic?
The term for something that has never been alive.
Abiotic
Plants
Producers
Keeping a balance
Homeostasis or Equilibrium
Organisms that return nutrients from dead things
decomposers or scavengers
What we were studying when we watched March of the Penguins
Homeostasois
Something that has been or is of a living thing
Biotic
Cows
First order consumers OR Herbivores
Gases that are produced and warm the earth
Greenhouse gases
Term for organisms that eat plants and animals
Omnivores
That part of an experiment that YOU change to see if it has an effect
Independent Variable
A skull of a human
Biotic
Something that eats something that eats plants
Secondary Consumers
algae -> shrimp -> small fish -> sharks
Food chain
Place in plants where photosynthesis happens
Chloroplasts
The energy molecule all living things use
ATP
Soil
Biotic and Abiotic
Wolves in Yellowstone
Keystone species; Secondary, Tertiary and/or quaternery
The term used for organisms making more of themselves
Reproduction
Glucose + Oxygen -> Carbon dioxide + Water + energy
Cellular Respiration
What you need to support a claim
EVIDENCE!
Someone driving a car
Abiotic and Biotic
Humans
Omnivores or secondary and tertiary consumers
What happens when a keystone species is removed from the ecosystem
trophic cascade
The percentage of energy that goes up the trophic levels
10%
Measuring the height of the radish plants was an example of this
Dependent Variable