Water, Carbon, and Nitrogen Cycle(s) and the Four Spheres
Food Web Vocab
Symbiotic Interactions
Impact of Natural Disasters
Biological Levels of Organization
100
The process that only involves 3 states of matter.
What is the water cycle?
100
An prgainsm that breaks down cells of dead plants and animals and turns them into simpler substances.
What is a decomposer?
100
The relationship in which both organisms involved benefit.
What is mutualism?
100
A natural disaster that has a huge amount of energy and has recently (as of 2017) impacted many ecosystems by uprooting trees and killing animals.
What is a hurricane?
100
2 in 1!
1) A group of the same species
2) A group of many different species
1) What is a population?
2) What is a community?
200
The sphere that appears twice in the carbon cycle.
What is the Lithosphere?
200
A carnivore/omnivore that feeds on herbivores
What are secondary consumers?
200
The process which involves one organism benefiting and one of them being harmed.
What is parasitism?
200
This natural disaster impacts ecosystems by killing off a large variety of organisms. However, they allow trees to release their seeds.
What is a wildfire?
200
A unit of life that must be able to grow, reproduce, respire, use energy, move autonomously, have a cellular structure.
What is a cell?
300
Plants that have their seeds in pods.
What are legumes?
300
An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances.
What is an autotroph?
300
The process in which one organism benefits and one is not effected.
What is commensalism?
300
This natural disaster impacts several ecosystems by taking some of the organisms in the original ecosystem and displacing them into another ecosystem in which they will die.
What is a tsunami?
300
The 3 levels that contain abiotic and biotic factors.
What are ecosystems, biomes, and biospheres?
400
The process in which nitrogen-fixing bacteria turn N3 into into ammonium which the host plant can use.
What is ammonification?
400
Animals like gray wolves, lions, electric rays and tigers.
What are apex predators?
400
When cleaner shrimp clean groupers in coral reefs.
What is an example of mutualism?
400
A natural disaster that impacts the ecosystem by picking up organisms (and trains) and throwing them miles from their homes.
What are tornadoes?
400
The highest level that can still be contained in a single organism.
What is an organ system?
500
The material in which carbon is released into the atmosphere by burning it.
What are gasoline and fossil fuels?
500
A group of atoms that takes in energy through an outward source.
What is a heterotroph?
500
When barnacles attach themselves to whales as a way of transportation.
What is an example of commensalism?
500
A natural disaster that cost the US more than $64 million, ruined the forest in Puerto Rico, and took place during 2017.
What is Hurricane Irma?
500
A system contained in living organisms made up of the fundamental units of life.