Energy Flow
It is an organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer (autotroph)?
It is a relationship in which both species involved benefit.
What is mutualism?
Individual living things
What is organism?
These resources cannot be replenished.
What is nonrenewable?
Living
What is biotic?
Shows energy flow between organisms in a series.
What is a food chain?
Lowest level in an energy pyramid
What are producers?
This is the process of water forming clouds.
What is condensation?
List 3 characteristics of a living organism
What is a reproduction, energy, wast, homeostasis, adaptation ect.
It is a primary consumer, it only eats producers.
What is an herbivore?
It is a relationship in which one of the species involved benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
It is a group of organisms of one type living in an area
What is a population?
The process of reclaiming and reusing raw materials
What is recycling?
Nonliving
What is abiotic?
Used to represent the flow of energy in a food chain or food web.
What are arrows?
Organisms that occupy the second trophic level.
What are primary consumers?
This is one possible way of getting carbon into the atmosphere.
What are combustion, respiration, or fossil fuels?
What is the largest level of organization?
What is bioshpere
It is a secondary or tertiary consumer, it eats only other animals.
What is a carnivore?
It is a relationship in which one species benefits while harming the other species.
What is parasitism?
All the abiotic factors with the organisms they support in a certain area
What is an ecosystem?
The process of turning organic waste into fertilizer.
What is composting?
Grass, trees, insects are all examples of
What is biotic?
Interconnected food chains in an ecosystem
What is a food web?
Secondary consumers can be found on this trophic level
What is the third trophic level?
This is the process of turning carbon dioxide and water into glucose.
What is photosynthesis?
_________ can not be create or destroyed.
What is energy?
They can be found on any trophic level, they eat both producers and consumers.
What is an omnivore?
Mistletoe living on a spruce tree and using it for its food supply is..
What is parasitism?
All the ecosystems with a certain climate region
What is a biome?
The Paris Climate Agreement was formed to prevent this event.
What is global warming/climate change?
Oxygen and Sunlight are examples of
What is abiotic?
Used to show the amount of energy that moves from one group of organisms to the next.
What is an energy pyramid?
Organisms that consume only plants/producers and are found on the second trophic level.
What is a herbivore?
Water leaving plants and returning to the atmosphere is called
What is transpiration?
Biome
What is a large naturally occurring community occupying a major habitat
They receive the least amount of energy in a food chain.
What is a decomposer?
An example is a butterfly feeding on the nectar from a flower while pollinating the flower.
What is mutualism?
This is all the populations together in an ecosystem
What is community?
When resources are limited, acting in one's own self interest is bad for everyone.
What is the tragedy of the commons?
Bacteria and Fungi are examples of
What are biotic factors?
The different levels in an energy pyramid
What is a trophic level?
Any organism that has the ability to create its own energy.
What is a autotroph?
This is the percentage of nitrogen in the atmosphere.
What is 78%?
A volcano erupts and destroys the surrounding area, what type cycle is this?
What is carbon cycle
It is the percent of energy that gets lost at each trophic level.
What is 90%?
A barnacle live on a whale in order to cover more ocean and get more food and the whale doesn't even notice is an example of this type of symbiosis.
What is commensalism?
The study of interactions among organisms and their environmentEcology
What is ecology?
A resource that cannot be depleted, such as solar energy.
What is an infinite or perpetual resource?
It was a bright sunny day and the air was clear as the farmer plowed the soil in his field. He diligently planted the seeds ahead of the predicted rain. No time to rest, he had pigs and cattle to feed and crops to weed.
List three biotic and three abiotic factors from the story
Biotic- farmer, seeds, pigs, cattle, and crops
Abiotic- sun, air, soil, and rain
Organisms responsible for returning nutrients back to an ecosystem
What are decomposers?
Eagles, lions, bears, and wolves are often classified as this in an energy pyramid.
What are tertiary consumers?
Carbon dioxide, methane, and water are three of these.
What are greenhouse gases?
The difference between a food web and food chain
What are interrelationships between organisms