Food Webs
These levels show the relationships between producers, primary consumers etc.
What are trophic levels?
A group of ecosystems classified by climate and vegetation.
What is a biome?
The term for living organisms in an ecosystem.
What is biotic?
What is transpiration?
The process by which solids melt or boil directly into gasses.
What is sublimation?
The lowest level in a food web, these organisms produce their own food.
What are producers or autotrophs?
A group of interbreeding, coexisting organisms.
What is a population?
The Oriental sweetlips gets its teeth cleaned and the blue-streak wrasses gets a snack.
What is mutualism?
Condensation and this are the two main ways water enters most ecosystems.
What is precipitation? Also accepted, snow melt or surface run-off.
These prokaryotes "fix" nitrogen so it can be re-introduced to the soil.
What are nitrogen fixing or nitrifying bacteria?
These organisms are on the second level of a food chain.
What are the primary consumers?
The non-living parts of any ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
The remora fish gets the leftovers from a feasting shark.
What is commensalism?
The ecosystem where all water runoff drains into a single body of water.
What is a watershed?
These are eukaryotic cells with a cell wall.
What are plant cells?
The measure of the amount of organisms in a certain area.
What is biomass?
Plasmodium, the small microorganism responsible for malaria is an example of this.
What is parasitism?
The main means by which oxygen reenters the oxygen cycle.
What is photosynthesis?
These are eukaryotic cells with a plasma membrane.
What are animal cells?
The study of interactions between living and non-living things.
What is ecology?
The calories on your candy bar are actually these.
What are kilocalories?
The goby fish can hide in a hole made by the blind shrimp. This is what the shrimp gets.
What is warning of approaching predators?
What is carbon dioxide?
These are the five "R"s of recycling right.
What is refuse, reduce, reuse, re-purpose, and recycle?