Photosynthesis
A living individual in an ecosystem is?
What is an organism?
The role of an organism in its ecosystem.
What is to survive until its energy is transferred to another organism.
A complex web of feeding relationships in an ecosystem is?
What is a food web?
Why is energy limited in an ecosystem and divided at each trophic level?
What is 90% of energy is lost at each trophic level as heat?
Name a carnivorous producer.
What is a venus flytrap?
Other acceptable answers: Pitcher Plants, Sundews, Butterworts, Bladderworts, etc.
all of the abiotic and biotic factors in an area - community plus the abiotic factors
What is an ecosystem?
Organisms that eat other organisms for sugars/food
What are consumers?
These represent the flow of energy through feeding relationships. They point from one animal to another.
What are the arrows in a food web/food chain?
An ecological pyramid that shows the distribution of energy among trophic levels
What is energy Pyramid?
Name the dependent variable in yesterday's experiment.
Acceptable answers: the size of the balloon, the amount of CO2 in the balloon, etc.
Define plant.
What is an organism that creates its own food through photosynthesis?
What do you call each level in a food chain?
Example: Primary Consumer.
What is a trophic level?
What is the name for organisms that break down dead organic matter and recycle its nutrients?
What are decomposers?
10 % of what flows between each trophic level?
What is energy?
Name the independent variable from yesterday's experiment.
What are the "inputs" of photosynthesis that a plant uses to perform that reaction?
What is sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water?
The trophic level of organisms that eat producers contains ______________
What are primary consumers?
Label the trophic levels:
Grass-->Cricket-->Frog --->Owl
What is Producer -->Primary consumer --->secondary consumer-->tertiary consumer?
Source of all energy in an ecosystem
What is the sun?
Describe the change scientists observed in the green sea slug
What is they transformed from consumers to producers through a genetic change that occurred when they consumed algae and absorbed its chlorophyll?
What are the "outputs" or byproducts of photosynthesis?
What is oxygen and glucose?
These trophic levels of consumers are often omnivores and carnivores.
What are secondary and tertiary consumers?
Make their own sugars/food capturing the light energy from the sun
What are producers?
If 12000 Kilocalories of energy are available at the producer level. How much energy is available at the tertiary consumer level?
What is 12 kilocalories?
Name 3 decomposers
What is fungi, bacteria, and yeast?
Acceptable answers: protists, nematodes, mushrooms, earthworms.