Wildfires
Fires require these three things.
What are oxygen, fuel, and energy (heat)?
These -trophs make up the foundation of a ecological pyramid.
What are autotrophs?
This is the original source of almost all energy in most ecosystems.
What is the sun?
The role that an organism has in its environment.
What is a niche?
This is an example of a biotic factor within an ecosystem.
What is (any living or once living thing!)?
What is (nutrient cycling, reproduction of fire-dependent species, clearing of undergrowth and forest canopy)?
This term describes the steps in a food web or ecological pyramid.
What are trophic levels?
The difference in how energy and nutrients move in a system.
What is energy flows and nutrients cycle?
This describes the relationship between wolves and deer in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
What is predation?
A large group of ecosystems with similar climate and communities makes up this.
What is a biome?
Wildfires often cause this type of change in an ecosystem.
What is secondary succession?
This is the primary difference between Ecosystems and Communities.
What is the inclusion of abiotic factors?
How most energy is lost between trophic levels.
This describes the relationship between a dog and a tick.
What is a parasitic relationship?
The total mass of all living matter in an ecosystem.
What is the biomass?
The percent of wildfires caused by humans.
What is 85%?
A snake that eats a frog that eats a bug that eats leaves is considered this.
The arrows represent the movement of this in a food web/chain.
What is energy?
An example of a organism's niche may be:
What is (worms as detritivores, bears as a top omnivore, ponderosa pines as fire adapted lower elevation trees)?
These organisms help break down nutrients, cycling them back into an ecosystem.
What are detritivores?
This is an ecological cost of wildfires.
What is (soil degradation, carbon emissions, loss of habitat)?
These are the six levels of biological organization.
What is the biosphere, biome, ecosystem, community, population, and organism?
Ecological pyramids show this relationship between the trophic levels.
What is the relative amount of energy available?
An example of a mutualistic relationship in nature may be:
What is (fungi and trees, a clown fish and an anemone, a bee and a flower)?
What is transpiration?