Biosphere
The study of how living things relate to each other and to their environments.
What is Ecology?
The ultimate source of energy.
What is the Sun?
This obtains energy and nutrients from autotrophs.
What is a Heterotroph?
This cycle is important because it provides the components necessary for respiration and photosynthesis.
What is the Carbon Cycle?
Eats only meat.
What is carnivore?
A group formed by several populations.
What is a Community?
The amount of energy that is transferred between trophic levels.
What is 10%?
The arrow represents this.
What is the flow of energy?
The burning of these leads to large amounts of carbon released into the atmosphere.
What is Fossil Fuels?
What do all food chains and food webs begin with?
What are producers?
Wind, humidity and rocks are all examples of this in an ecosystem.
What are Abiotic Factors?
The trophic level with the most amount of energy.
What is the First Trophic Level?
This breaks down and absorbs nutrients from dead organisms.
What is a Decomposer?
The process that allows Carbon to enter the food web.
What is Photosynthesis?
The levels of organization in the correct order.
What is individual, population, community, ecosystem, biome & biosphere?
The term to describe the cattle, insects, grass, temperature, water and sunlight.
What is Ecosystem?
The numbers of organisms in each trophic level does this as you go up the trophic levels.
What is Decrease?
Energy is lost as this as it flows through an ecosystem.
What is Heat?
The two abiotic reservoirs for carbon.
What is the atmosphere & oceans?
An example of a primary consumer.
What is cow/horse/sheep/zebra/etc?
A herd of zerbras eating the tall grass together.
What is a population?
The amount of energy available to the tertiary consumer if there are 1,000,000 joules of energy at the autotroph level.
What is 1,000?
The last stop for all organisms in a food web.
What is Decomposers?
What is respiration, combustion, and decomposition.
The secondary consumer in the following food chain:
Grass -> Cricket -> Bird -> Cat -> Coyote
What is the bird?