Energy, Producers, and Consumers
This describes a tiger's eating habits.
This describes a series of organisms in which energy is transferred from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
This is any nutrient whose supply limits productivity.
What is a limiting nutrient?
What are primary producers?
This is the name of each step in a food chain or food web.
What is a trophic level?
These are places where carbon is stored.
What is a decomposer?
This shows the relative amount of energy available at each trophic level of a food chain or food web.
What is an energy pyramid?
This term refers to how nutrients are cycled through an ecosystem.
What is recycled?
These are the two processes that primary producers can use to create energy-rich carbohydrates.
What are photosynthesis and chemosynthesis?
This is the amount of energy that gets transferred from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10%?
This term encompasses biological, geological, physical and chemical, and human processes.
What are biogeochemical processes/cycles?
This the food source for detritivores.
This shows the relative amount of living organic matter in each trophic level of an ecosystem.
What is a pyramid of biomass?
These are the three main elements that are essential for the function of all ecosystems.
What are carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus?