Cycles
The way water is cycled through the biosphere
What is The Water Cycle?
Any close relationship between species
What is symbiosis?
Organisms competing for food and survival
What is competition?
The lowest level in individual things
What is an Organism?
Each step in a food chain or web is called...
What is a trophic level?
Photosynthesis occurs in this cycle
What is The Carbon Cycle?
Both species benefit from the relationship
What is mutualism?
Animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
What is a Predator?
High in the atmosphere to deep in the ocean
What is the Biosphere?
Total mass of living matter at each trophic level
What is Biomass?
The cycles that move water, carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen through ecosystems are...
What is Biogeochemical cycles?
One animal benefits while the other is harmed
What is parasitism?
The unique way an organism survives
What is a Niche?
Large geographic areas with similar climates and ecosystems
What is a Biome?
Arrows are used in this diagram to show energy flow in an ecosystem (smaller than a web)
What is a Food Chain?
The short version of the phosphorus cycle (how the phosphorus travels)
What is Soil to Producer to Consumer?
One animal benefits while the other is unaffected
What is commensalism?
Nonliving Factors in an ecosystem
What is Abiotic Factors?
Group of interacting populations that occupy the same geographic area at the same time
What is a Community?
Complex network of interconnected feeding relationships
What is a Food Web?
The two main parts of the nitrogen cycle
What is Nitrogen Fixation and Denitrification?
The relationship between cows and the bacteria in their digestive system is an example of...
What is mutualism?
Study of interactions that take place among organisms and their environment
What is Ecology?
Organisms that make their own food (list both names)
What is a producer and autotroph?
The percent of energy transferred between trophic levels
What is 10%?