Vocab
Food Chain
Levels of Ecology
Cycles
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100

This is the meaning of carnivore, omnivore, and herbivore. 

What is carnivore = meat, omnivore = both, herbivore = plants?

100

This is another word for a plant. 

What is producer or autotroph. 

100

This level of Ecology has the most amount of abiotic and biotic factors. 

What is the biosphere?

100

Why are they called cycles?

What is because they are constantly recycled throughout the biosphere in different forms?

100

 This is the level of ecology pictured. 

What is an ecosystem?

200

Sunlight, precipitation, water clarity, and soil are all what?

What are abiotic factors?
200

This is one difference and one similarity between a food web, food chain, and food pyramid. 

What is they all show the flow of energy in an ecosystem?

What is a food web is individual food chains and a pyramid shows the amount of organisms present. 

200

On a hike, a student observed a mountain range, precipitation, squirrels, birds, and a bear. What level of ecology is this. 

What is an Ecosystem?

200

List the steps of the water cycle. 

What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff?

200


What would happen to the lion population if the deer died off?

What is the lions would decrease because they wouldn't have a food source. 

300

This is an example of a limiting factor.

What is food, water, mates, shelter, etc. 

300

This is what we call the top of the food chain. 

What is an apex predator?

300
What are three different biomes?

What is tundra, rainforest, deciduous forest, boreal forest, ocean, grassland, savanna, desert?

300

This is one way humans are disrupting a biogeochemical cycle. 

What is pollution, burning too many fossil fuels, too much fertilizer etc?

300



This is how invasive species disrupt an ecosystem. 

What is they have no natural predators so their numbers increase and they take resources from other native organisms?

400

This is the level an organism occupies in a food chain. 

What is trophic level?

400

This is how much energy is lost as heat between each trophic leve. 

What is 90%?

400

This is the difference between a population and a community. 

What is a population is a group of the same animal and a community are groups of different animals. 

400

This is the only way to remove carbon from the atmosphere. 

What is photosynthesis?

400

 This is what happens to organisms when a population is over the carrying capacity. 

What is they die because there are not enough resources?

500

This is what we call an organism that eats producers.

What is primary consumer?

500
Why is there more grass in the world than lions?

What is there is not enough energy to support that many lions?

500
These are the 6 levels of ecology in order from smallest to largest. 

What is organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere. 

500

Describe the steps of the carbon cycle. 

What is photosynthesis, to plants, to animals, to death or respiration, to fossil fuels, to burning the fossil fuels. 

500

 What type of whale did I see on my trip.

What is a Fin Whale?

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