Vocabulary
Energy
Food Webs
Cycles of Matter
Random
100
A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area
What is Population?
100
Each step in a food chain or food web.
What is a trophic level?
100
Must acquire energy from other organisms.
What is Heterotroph or Consumer?
100
Cycles where elements pass from one organism to another and among parts of the biosphere through closed loops.
What is Biogeochemical?
100
Where the energy comes from that powers the Water Cycle.
What is The Sun?
200
Any living part of the environment with which an organism might interact.
What is Biotic Factor?
200
Most of the energy lost at each level of an energy pyramid escapes in this form.
What is Heat?
200
The best known and most common primary producers harness solar energy through this process.
What is Photosynthesis?
200
Groundwater is taken up by plant roots and then released to the atmosphere by this process of the water cycle.
What is Transpiration?
200
Human activity that affects the phosphorous cycle.
What is manufacture and use of Fertilizers?
300
Algae, Certain Bacteria, and Plants that capture energy from sunlight and convert it into forms that living cells can use.
What is Autotroph or Primary Producer?
300
If there are 1000 units of energy available to a producer, this is how much energy would be available to a third level consumer?
What is 1 unit?
300
Penguin,Sun,Killer Whale, Algae, Seal, Krill(shrimp) obtain energy this way in an aquatic food chain.
What is Sun----->Algae----->Krill(shrimp)----->Penguin-----> Seal----->Killer Whale
300
Two processes that release Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere.
What is Burning of fossil fuels, Burning of Forests, Cellular Respiration, Geological activities(volcanoes)?
300
Sunlight, precipitation, wind.
What is abiotic factors?
400
All the organisms that live in a place, together with their physical environment.
What is Ecosystem?
400
The Direction Energy Flows in an Ecosysytem.
What is One way flow?
400
The Black Bear qualifies as one of these in a food Web because it eats acorns and dear.
What is an Omnivore?
400
Two processes that fix Nitrogen into Nitrates.
What is Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria in the soil and Lightning?
400
Individual, Ecosystem, Biosphere, Community, Population and Biome organized into levels of organization from smallest to largest.
What is Individual, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biome, Biosphere?
500
Process where Bacteria obtain energy by converting nitrates into nitrogen gas, which is released into the atmosphere.
What is Denitrification?
500
Chemical energy instead of light energy is used to produce food.
What is Chemosynthesis?
500
These organisms release nutrients that can be reused by primary producers.
What is Decomposers?
500
The Nutrient that is not found in significant amounts in the atmosphere.
What is Phosphorous?
500
Grasshopper, sun, rain, grass, heat, flowers, dirt, producer, energy, decomposer, bacteria, organized into abiotic and biotic categories.
What is Abiotic-->Sun, Rain, Heat, Dirt, Energy Biotic--->Grass, Flowers, Producer, Decomposer, Bacteria
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