Biogeochemical Cycles
This part of the water cycle happens when the sun heats up water and turns it into vapor.
What is evaporation?
Organisms that cannot produce their own food; but, rather, must consume other organisms for its energy.
What are Consumers?
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Who is Pam?
This is the original source of energy for almost all life on Earth.
What is the sun?
This is an individual living thing made up of one or more cells.
What is an individual?
This process allows plants to take in carbon dioxide from the air and use it to make glucose.
What is photosynthesis?
Organisms that produce organic compounds from inorganic molecules by the process of photosynthesis.
What are Producers?
This type of relationship happens when one organism hunts and eats another.
What is predation?
These organisms make their own food using sunlight through photosynthesis.
What are producers?
This is a group of organisms of the same species that live in the same area.
What is a population?
This process happens when fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas are burned, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
What is combustion?
Special group of consumers that consume the dead carcasses or body parts of other animals previously killed or died by natural causes.
What are Scavengers?
This is a relationship between two organisms that benefit from one another (+,+)
What is mutualism?
These organisms cannot make their own food and must eat other organisms for energy.
What are consumers?
This is all living and non living things in a given area.
What is an ecosystem?
This process in the nitrogen cycle converts nitrogen gas from the atmosphere into forms that plants can use, thanks to special bacteria.
What is nitrogen fixation?
Special group of organisms that chemically break down the remains of dead plants and animals into detritus
What are Decomposers?
This is a relationship between two organisms where one organism benefits and the other is not affected (+,0).
What is commensalism?
This shows the flow of energy in an ecosystem from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
This is a group of ecosystems that share similar climates and organisms.
What is a biome?
The final step in the nitrogen cycle returns nitrogen back to the atmosphere by converting nitrates in the soil into nitrogen gas.
What is denitrification?
Special group of consumers which consume nutrients by feeding on detritus, the organic matter of dead plant and animal material.
What are Detritivores?
This is a relationship between two organisms where one benefits and the other is negatively impacted (+,-).
What is parasitism?
This diagram shows how energy moves through an ecosystem with multiple feeding relationships, not just one path.
What is a food web?
This is every living thing on Earth and all parts of the Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air.
What is a biosphere?