This is the ability to do (biological) work.
What is energy?
This is a link in a food web or food chain.
What is a trophic level?
This is what plants do.
What is photosynthesis?
These are the living parts of ecosystems.
These are the non-living parts of ecosystems.
What are abiotic factors?
What is the first law of thermodynamics?
This is another name for producers.
What is autotrophs?
This is what plants and animals do.
What is cell respiration?
This is the direction energy flows through ecosystems.
What is, one-way?
This primary consumer is the Maine state bird.
What is a chickadee?
A universal law that states when energy is transformed, some is degraded as heat.
What is the second law of thermodynamics?
This is another name for consumers.
What is heterotrophs?
This is why autotrophs are vital to ecosystems.
What is, they transform radiant energy into chemical/potential
This is the total amount of photosynthetic energy that plants capture and assimilate in a given period.
What is gross primary productivity?
This mammal is an omnivore and the University of Maine at Orono mascot.
What is a black bear?
Arrows in food webs indicate this.
What is the one-way flow of energy through the ecosystem?
This is another name for decomposers.
What is saprotrophs?
This is a product of photosynthesis.
What is carbohydrates/sugars?
This is is the photosynthetic productivity after respiration losses are subtracted.
What is net primary productivity?
These are the producers in the Gulf of Maine.
What is algae?
This concept refers to the flow of energy from the Sun to the Earth.
What is an open-system?
This is the difference between decomposers and detritivores.
What is the production of nutrients used by producers?
This is a product of cell respiration.
What is, CO2?
The sequence, species->population->community is an example of this.
What is ecological organization?
What is, producers?