Levels of Organization
One single species
What is an individual (organism)?
Eats only meat
What is a carnivore?
A human
What is biotic?
What do all food chains and food webs start begin with?
What is a producer?
Found in all living things, genetic codes, and is considered one of the building blocks to life.
What is carbon?
The abiotic and biotic factors in an environment
What is an ecosystem?
Eats plants and meat
What is an omnivore?
The sun
What is abiotic
To what consumer do all members on a food chain and food web lead to?
What is a decomposer?
Responsible for recycling the nutrients.
Decomposers
Ecosystems that share similar climates and organisms.
What is a biome?
What decomposers recycle back into the ecosystem.
What is nutrients?
A dead carcass
What is biotic
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
A food chain is a linear sequence of what organism eats what. A food web is a more accurate representation of what eats what in an ecosystem and contains multiple food chains.
A herd of zebras and giraffes living together eating tall grass.
What is a community?
The consumer type of crustaceans
What is an omnivore?
A tundra
What is abiotic and biotic?
List the tropic levels in order (include quaternary)
Producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer, and quaternary consumer.
The two abiotic reservoirs for carbon
What is the atmosphere and bodies of water?
What is individual, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere?
Define the difference between a decomposer and a scavenger (include the key word for decomposer in your response)
A decomposer recycles the nutrients from dead organisms. A scavenger eats the dead tissue and remains of other organisms.
List 3 abiotic and 5 biotic factors you would find in the ocean
Abiotic: temperature of the water, minerals, rocks, water currents (winds), pH, and oxygen.
Biotic: fish, algae, whales, jellyfish, coral, sharks, shrimp, ect.
If there is 100 Calories available at the producer level, how much energy will be available for the secondary consumers?
What is 1 calorie?
Three ways that carbon is put back into abiotic places
What is respiration, combustion, and decomposition