How do We get Energy
All energy Comes from Where?
All energy Comes from the sun
What else are consumers called?
Heterotrophs
Eat only vegetation (plants)
Herbivores
Food Chain.
What is a diagram that traces a single flow of energy through trophic levels in an ecosystem.
Source of most carbon in the atmosphere.
What is organisms exhaling?
Producers are also called.
What is Autotrophs?
Consumers get their energy from...?
What is eating other organisms.
Carnivores
eat only meat
Food Web.
What is diagram that shows multiple food chains at once, and how they interact.
Transpiration.
What is the evaporation of water from the stomata of leaves?
The process where producers get energy from.
From photosynthesis.
Top of a trophic pyramid.
What are Apex predators?
Eats meat and vegetation
Omnivore
Energy Pyramid.
What is a diagram that shows the energy available at each trophic level. Always gets smaller the higher you go up because the number of organisms that can be supported decreases.
Manmade process that adds CO2 to the atmosphere.
What is combustion or burning of fossil fuels?
Where producers are placed in a trophic pyramid.
What is on the bottom?
Process that consumers use to get energy.
What is cellular respiration?
Decomposer (detritivores)
eat dead materials
Going up a trophic pyramid energy is....
decreased and lost as heat.
Meaning of carbon fixation in biology.
What is to take carbon out of the air and incorporate it into an organic molecule?
Two examples of Autotrophic groups.
What are plants and algae?
Why there are fewer consumers than producers.
What is it takes more biomass to support larger animals or energy is lost as it moves up trophic levels?
Importance of Decomposers
Return nutrients to the ecosystem.
What is 10%?
Why nitrogen is important for living organisms.
What is it is an component of proteins, DNA and RNA?