Cavs
Pistons
Celtics
Warriors
Lakers
100
The branch of biology dealing with interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment is called...
Ecology
100
In the organization of an ecosystem, species make up populations, which make up _____________.
Communities
100
The simplest grouping of more than one kind of organism int eh biosphere is a...
Community
100
The lowest level of environmental levels of organizational complexity that includes living and nonliving factors is the...
Ecosystem
100
Plants are typically what kind organism when it comes to finding food...?
Primary producer
200
How do most primary producers make their own food?
by using light energy to make carbohydrates.
200
In what ways are plants in a sunny mountain meadow and sulfur bacteria in a deep-sea volcanic vent alike?
They both produce carbohydrates and oxygen.
200
In what way are herbivores and carnivores alike?
They both obtain energy by consuming other organisms.
200
What do you call the total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level...?
Biomass
200
A model of the complex feeding interactions among organisms in a community from producers to decomposers is called a...
Food Web.
300
Why type of food eating animals eat both producers and consumers?
Omnivores
300
What is the term for each step in the transfer of energy and matter withing a food web?
Trophic Level
300
A bird stalks, kills, and then eats an insect. Based on this behavior, which pair of ecological food eater terms describes the bird?
Consumer, carnivore.
300
What are the three kids of ecological pyramids?
energy biomass numbers
300
What is a word that means the same thing as a consumer?
Heterotroph.
400
Matter can recycle through the biosphere because...
biological systems do not use up matter, they transform it.
400
Nitrogen fixation is carried out primarily by...
Bacteria
400
Animals get most of the nitrogen they need by...
consuming plants and other animals.
400
Organisms need nutrients in order to...
carry out essential life functions.
400
The movements of energy and nutrients through living systems are different because...
energy flows in one direction, and nutrients recycle.
500
What is the base of all ecological pyramids?
Producers.
500
An ecologist who is studying a group of ecosystems that have similar climates and are home to similar organisms is studying a...?
Biome
500
Ecologists use tools such as binoculars and microscopes to __________ changes in the environment.
Observe
500
Ecologists can make __________ using ecological models.
Predictions.
500
Producers release __________ into the atmosphere during the process of photosynthesis.
Oxygen
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