Environment
Food Web
Cycles of Nature
Energy Transfer
Potpourri
100
The non-living parts of an environment.
What are Abiotic Factors?
100
An organism that actively hunts other organisms and are secondary consumers.
What is a Carnivore/Predator?
100
This cycle includes respiration, burning fossil fuels and decomposition of plants and animals.
What is the Carbon Cycle?
100
This shows the amount of individuals in each trophic level.
What is a Pyramid of numbers?
100
The reason only 10% of energy is transferred to the next trophic level.
What is uses energy for life processes & loses some as heat?
200
The living parts of an environment.
What are Biotic Factors?
200
An organism that only eats plants and is a primary consumer.
What is an Herbivore?
200
The repeated movement of water between Earth's surface and atmosphere.
What is the Water Cycle?
200
This shows the amount of energy (food) available at each trophic level.
What is an Energy Pyramid?
200
A nutrient that is in short supply or cycles slowly in an ecosystem.
What is a limiting nutrient?
300
All the living and non-living parts interacting together.
What is an Ecosystem?
300
An organism that eats both plants and other animals and can be a secondary or tertiary consumer.
What is an Omnivore?
300
Phosphorus is necessary because it is part of an organism's _____ and ____.
What is DNA & RNA?
300
The base of all food webs on the planet.
What are plants?
300
The process where bacteria convert nitrogen gas into a useable form.
What is nitrogen fixation?
400
Shows the amount of living tissue available at each trophic level.
What is a Biomass (ecological) pyramid?
400
Using inorganic chemical compounds to produce food (sugars).
What is Chemosynthesis?
400
____ by plants puts moisture back into the atmosphere
What is Transpiration?
400
This is the rate at which plants make biomass (grow).
What is Primary Production?
400
All the members of the same species living in an area.
What is a Population?
500
Everything that surrounds an organism.
What is their Environment?
500
The feeding levels in an ecosystem.
What is a Trophic Level?
500
Respiration removes ____ from the atmosphere and puts ____ back into the atmosphere.
What is Oxygen & Carbon Dioxide?
500
These organisms breakdown organic matter and return nutrients to the soil.
What are Decomposers?
500
Organisms which can interbreed and produce viable and fertile offspring.
What is a Species?
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