Vocabulary
Food Webs
Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration
Nutrients Cycle
Misc.
100
A group of organisms of the same species living together.
What is population?
100
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.
What are Plants? What are autotrophs?
100
Plants make their own food by using this process.
What is photosynthesis?
100
The three nutrients that are cycled through the food web are...
What are carbon, water and nitrogen cycles?
100
Which of the following is abiotic and why? fish, turtle, soil, or flower
What is a host?
200
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
200
These organisms can not produce their own food.
What are heterotrophs?
200
Both animals and plants do this process in order to live.
What is cellular respiration?
200
This is how plants lose water to the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
200
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
300
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
300
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
300
This is where photosynthesis take place.
What is chloroplast?
300
The nutrient cycle that directly affect climate and global warming.
What is carbon cycle?
300
A type of growth that does not have any limits and can grow for ever.
What is exponential growth?
400
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
400
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
What is an energy pyramid?
400
The products of photosynthesis and the reactants of cellular respiration.
What are glucose and oxygen?
400
Photosynthesis uses this cycle to make glucose.
What is carbon cycle?
400
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation? What is a predator-prey?
500
A type of relationship where both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
500
If you start with 100% energy from the producer, how much energy do you expect at the primary consumer?
10%
500
During cellular respiration, an energy is formed as a product.
What is ATP?
500
Zebra mussels, pythons would be an example of what?
What are invasive species?
500
A group of organiss that are physically similar and can mate wit each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is a species?
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