Life & Death
What percent of energy is available to the next trophic level?
What is 10%?
What is a group of one kind of organism?
What is population?
An organism that eats plants
What is an herbivore?
These organisms usually start a food chain
What is a producer?
An Italian food whose name means "little orange" but is actually made mostly of rice
What are arancini?
The equation for photosynthesis
What is CO2 + H20 + light yields C6H12O6 + O2?
What is a group of more than one kind of organism?
What is community?
What is producer/autotroph?
The final consumers in most food webs
What are decomposers?
U.S. President with the middle name Milhous
Who is Richard Nixon?
If photosynthesis uses light to make food, what does chemosynthesis use?
What are chemicals?
Name a biotic factor.
What is plant, animal, fungus, bacteria, etc.?
What is an organism that eats the carcasses of dead animals killed by other predators?
What is scavenger?
The name for each step in a food web
What is trophic level?
People with alektorophobia are scared of...
What are chickens?
Name an organism that does not require sunlight to live.
What are chemosynthetic bacteria?
Name an abiotic factor.
What is soil type, rainfall, temperature, nutrients, etc.?
An organism that eats dead plant and animal remains
What is a detritivore?
Which environments are more nutrient rich, land or open ocean?
What is land?
The world's oldest known musical instrument
What is a flute (42,000 years old)?
In an ecological pyramid, as you go up the pyramid does the energy increase or decrease?
What is decreases?
List the 6 ecological organization levels from smallest to largest.
What is species, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere?
An organism that eats both plants and animals
What is omnivore?
What 2 things flow through a food web?
What are energy and matter?
The first three books of the Old Testament
What are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus?