This is the classification of an animal that only eats plants.
What is a herbivore?
100
This is the number of individuals of a specific species.
What is population?
100
The process of water from water sources rising into the atmosphere is called this.
What is evaporation?
100
This is the most common form of carbon in the gaseous state.
What is carbon dioxide?
100
This type of organism breaks down detritus and release nutrients back into the environment.
What are decomposers?
200
This is the classification of an animal that eats dead or decomposing animal or plant material.
What is a scavenger?
200
This happens between organisms that eat the same thing and/or live in the same area (Only this may not be the healthy type)
What is competition?
200
This can be found on the roots of plants as well as in the soil and turn nitrogen gas into useable nitrogen called nitrates.
What are nitrogen-fixing bacteria?
200
Burning these increase the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. You probably burned them on the way to school today.
What are fossil fuels?
200
This type of relationship occurs when one organism benefits and another organism suffers.
What is parasitism?
300
This is the process where nutrients or toxins flow upwards towards the top predator in a food web as each organism is eaten by another organism. This can either be good, or harmful!
What is bioaccumulation?
300
This symbiotic relationship occurs when one organism benefits and the other organism neither benefits nor suffers harm.
What is commensalism?
300
The process of water moving from the ground into water sources underground is called this.
What is seepage?
300
A part of the carbon cycle, this is the process that turns carbon dioxide and water into sugars and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
300
This is the term used for when a population reaches the limit of the amount of organisms in an ecosystem.
What is carrying capacity?
400
According to this food web, the toad is in this trophic level.
What is the 4th trophic level?
400
An ecosystem relies on the relationship between these two types of factors.
What are biotic and abiotic factors?
400
Daily Double!!!
This can be found in animal waste products, completing the nitrogen cycle and returning nitrogen back to the environment.
What is ammonia, uric acid, or urea?
400
Decayed plant matter from a bog is called this.
What is peat?
400
Each organism has their own ecological this - how it survives, how it reproduces, and where it can be found on the food web.
What is niche?
500
An organism in the second trophic level is also usually this type of consumer.
What is primary consumer?
500
This and water is a product during the cellular respiration process.
What is carbon dioxide?
500
This is the chemical formula for "nitrogen gas".
What is N2?
500
Farm animals are a large producer of this type of gas... Stinky!
What is methane (CH4) gas?
500
Daily Double!!!
This describes how directly a consumer interacts with its producers in an ecosystem.