The study of interactions among organisms and
the environment.
What is Ecology?
What are biotic and abiotic factors?
The primary source of energy for most ecosystems?
What is sunlight?
This cycle includes evaporation, transpiration, condensation, and precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
Biology: The basic unit of life.
What is a cell?
A group of the same species which live in the
same area.
What is a Population?
This term describes organisms that make their own food through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.
This is a model that shows how energy flows through a community of organisms, from producers to consumers to decomposers.
What is a Food Web?
This gas makes up about 78% of the atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
Physics: The formula for calculating speed.
What is Distance divided by Time (v=d/t)?
A community and their environment.
What is an Ecosystem?
This group of organisms breaks down dead material, returning nutrients to the soil.
What are Decomposers?
This percentage of energy is lost (primarily as heat) from one trophic level to the next.
What is 90%?
The term for the process by which dead plant and animal matter is converted into fossil fuels over millions of years?
What is carbonization (or fossilization)?
Chemistry: This type of bond involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms?
What is a covalent bond?
All 4 'Spheres' interacting on Earth.
What is the Hydrosphere, Atmosphere, Geosphere, and Biosphere?
These are the most common producers in aquatic ecosystems.
What are phytoplankton?
The name of the process that converts glucose into usable energy in cells.
What is cellular respiration?
Name two human activities have significantly increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
Anatomy & Physiology: The human organ primarily responsible for filtering blood.
What are the kidneys?
List the levels of organization from the smallest to largest! (6 answers)
Species, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biome, Biosphere.
List all the trophic levels of an ecological pyramid (Looking for 4 answers)
What are Producers, Primary Consumers, Secondary Consumers, and Tertiary Consumers?
List the 6 essential elements to biological processes.
What are Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium?
Astronomy: List the planets in order of their distance away from the sun.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?