Living Things and the Environment
An individual living thing
What is an organism?
The three roles an organism can have in an ecosystem
What is producer, consumer, and decomposer?
The three stages of the water cycle
What is evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
An apex predator
What is an animal that has no natural predators in its food web?
The starting point of a food chain
What is the sun?
An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce (where it lives)
What is habitat?
The three types of consumers
What is herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore?
The Law of Conservation of Mass and Law of Conservation of Energy
What is they can't be created or destroyed?
Difference between emigration and immigration?
What is emigration is exiting a population, and immigration is moving into a population?
The best way to show how energy moves throughout an ecosystem
What is a food web?
The difference between a biotic factor and an abiotic factor
What is biotic is living, abiotic is nonliving?
Humans are an example of this type of consumer
What is an omnivore?
The 2 cycles of matter that depend on each other a lot
What is carbon cycle and oxygen cycle?
An organism that breaks down biotic waste and dead organisms
The largest population that an area can support
What is carrying capacity?
An environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing
What is a limiting factor?
A group of organism that are the same species in the same area
What is a population?
The process of a gas turning into a liquid
What is condensation?
Wood is an example of this type of factor
What is a biotic factor?
The number of individuals per unit area
What is population density?
The ecosystem organization levels in order
What is organism, population, community, ecosystem?
The energy level that contains the most energy
What is producers?
The process of changing free nitrogen into a usable form of nitrogen
What is nitrogen fixation?
Where 10 percent of the fixed nitrogen that plants need comes from
What is lightning?
The three ways to show how energy can flow throughout an ecosystem
What is food chain, food web, and energy pyramid?