Energy Flow In Ecosystems
Cycles of Matter
Biogeography
Biomes
Aquatic Ecosystems
100
Each of the organisms in an ecosystem fills the energy role of ____,_____,_____.
What is producer, consumer, decomposers.
100
Is the continuous process by which water moves from earth's surface to the atmosphere and back.
What is water cycle?
100
The study of where organisms live.
What is biogeography?
100
A group of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms.
What is a biome?
100
There are two types of a aquatic ecosystems: _______ and _______ ecosystems.
What is freshwater and marine ecosystems?
200
Series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
What is food chain?
200
The processes of _____,______, and _____ make up the water cycle.
What is evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
200
As the plates move the continents move with them in a process.
What is continental drift?
200
Tall trees form a leafy roof.
What is canopy?
200
Where fresh water of a river meets the salt water of the ocean.
What is estuary?
300
Consists of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
What is food web?
300
Producers take in carbon dioxide from the air during photosynthesis.
What is the carbon cycle?
300
The movement of organisms from one place to another.
What is dispersal?
300
A second layer of shorter trees and vines form.
What is understory?
300
Between the highest high tide line and the lowest low tide line.
What is intertidal zone?
400
This shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.
What is energy pyramid?
400
Producers release oxygen as a result of photosynthesis.
What is the oxygen cycle?
400
An organism that is carried into a new location by people.
What is exotic species?
400
An area that receives less than 25 centimeters of rain per year.
What is desert?
400
Below the low tide line is a region of shallow water.
What is neritic zone?
500
In an energy pyramid the ______ has the most energy.
What is producer?
500
The process of changing free nitrogen into a usable form of nitrogen.
What is nitrogen fixation?
500
3 factors that limit dispersal of a species are ____,_____,_____.
What is physical barriers, competition, and climate?
500
A grassland close to the equator.
What is savannah?
500
This is located below the surface zone.
What is the deep zone?
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