Characteristics of Life
Maintain a Stable Internal Environment
Homeostasis
What is a biome characterized by?
Climate, plants, and animals
Which trophic level consists of herbivores?
Primary consumers
What do the arrows represent in a food web?
Energy being transferred
Has very cold temperatures with little plant and animal life
Tundra
Obtain and use materials and energy
Metabolism
How much energy is passed on to each trophic level?
10%
What is the term for something that makes its own food?
Autotroph
What are the primary producers in this food web?
Cattail and marsh grass
Very hot temperatures
Desert
Composed of one or more of these
Cells
Have a universal genetic code
DNA
What is energy lost as between each trophic level?
Heat and waste
What would happen if the shrew population decreased?
The grasshopper population would increase and the hawk population would decrease
Has a lot of rain and is very biodiverse
Tropical Rain forest
Groups of organisms change over time
Evolution
Respond to their environment
Stimulus
If primary producers have 100,000 kc, how much would the secondary consumers have?
100
What are the secondary consumers in this food web?
Shrew and frog
What biome is Indiana?
Deciduous Forests
Every organism increases in size
Grow and develop
Produce new similar organisms
Reproduction
What are the top predators in an energy pyramid?
Tertiary consumers
What are the tertiary consumers in this food web?
Hawk and snake
This biome has very rich soil
Grasslands