What are the steps of the water cycle? (There are 3)
What is evaporation, condensation, then precipitation
100
How many levels does an energy pyramid have?
What is 3-4
100
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
What is a food web is a complicated, interconnected food chain
100
How many types of symbiosis are there?
What is 3
100
How many types of succession are there?
What is 2
200
Plants use carbon dioxide to make energy, and animals exhale carbon dioxide during respiration. How else does carbon dioxide get into the Carbon Cycle?
What is through combustion- the burning of organic material
200
Which organisms are always at the bottom of an energy pyramid?
What is the producers/plants
200
What do herbivores eat?
What is plants
200
Predation occurs when one species __________ another species
What is kill/eat
200
What are the names of the 2 types of succession?
What are primary and secondary
300
Phosphorus is often found inside of rocks...it dissolves into water when rocks erode. How does phosphorus enter the food chain?
What is plants absorb it through their roots, and it is returned to the soil when organisms die
300
What organisms are always at the top of an energy pyramid?
What is the top carnivore/ tertiary consumer
300
Where does the energy in a food web/chain originate from?
What is the sun
300
In parasitism, one organism benefits while the other is________
What is harmed/hurt
300
What is the difference between the 2 types of succession?
What is primary involves bare rock- secondary does not
400
Plants have bacteria that live inside of their roots that contain special enzymes that can "fix" nitrogen. What is the difference between nitrogen fixation, and ammonification?
What is nitrogen fixation is combining nitrogen with water. Ammonification is when nitrogen returns to the soil when organisms die.
400
How much energy is lost each time you move up a level in an energy pyramid?
What is 90%
400
What is the difference between a carnivore and an omnivore?
What is carnivores eat only meat, omnivores eat meat and plants
400
In mutualism, ____________ species benefit
What is both
400
What is the name of the types of plants that appear first during a succession?
What is the pioneer species
500
Explain what the word "niche" means
What is the physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives, and the way in which that organism uses those conditions (temperature, reproduction, food,etc.)
500
What happens to the lost energy in an energy pyramid?
What is, it is used to give energy to organisms (food) and the rest is excreted (wastes)
500
Each step of a food chain, indicated by drawing arrows, represents what?
What is a trophic level- the transfer of energy from 1 organism to another
500
In commensalism, 1 species __________, while the other ____________