Organization
Description
Succession
Latitude and Climate
Vocabulary
100
Simple model that shows how energy flows throughout an ecosystem
What is a food chain?
100
An organism that collects energy from sunlight or inorganic substances to produce food
What is an autotroph?
100
Ecosystems are constantly changing due to what in the environment
What are disturbances?
100
The condition of the atmosphere at a specific place and time.
What is weather?
100
The scientific discipline in which the relationships among living organisms and the interaction the organisms have with their environments are studied
What is ecology?
200
Model representing the many interconnected food chains and pathways in which energy flows through a group or organisms
What is a food web?
200
An organism that gets its energy requirements by consuming other organisms
What is a heterotroph?
200
The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
What is ecological succession?
200
The distance of any point on the surface of Earth north or south from the equator.
What is latitude?
200
Scientists who study ecology
What is ecologists?
300
A diagram that can show the relative amounts of energy, biomass, or numbers or organisms at each trophic level in an ecosystem
What is an ecological pyramid?
300
Only eats plants
What is a herbivore?
300
Succession that occurs on surfaces where no soil exists
What is primary succession?
300
The average weather conditions in an area, including temperature and precipitation
What is climate?
300
The portion of Earth that includes landmasses, bodies of water, and all the locations below the Earth's surface that contain life
What is the biosphere?
400
Total mass of living matter at each tropic level
What is biomass?
400
Only eats meat
What is a carnivore?
400
Orderly and predictable change that occur after a community of organisms has been removed, but the soil is still intact.
What is secondary succession?
400
elevation, continental landmasses, and ocean currents are all...
What are affecting factors?
400
A green pigment found in plants and algae
What is chlorophyll?
500
Each level in a food chain or a food web
What is a trophic level?
500
Eats plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
500
Faster succession
What is secondary succession?
500
Place on Earth that gets the most direct sunlight
What is the equator?
500
Area where organisms live
What is a habitat?
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