Ecosystems 1
100%, 10%, 1%, 0.1%
What is the percentage of energy at each trophic level?
A group of different species living in the same area
What is a community?
bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, sow bugs
What are some examples of decomposers?
algae, elm tree, grass are all examples of what?
What are producers?
Plants added this abiotic factor to the environment that made animal life possible.
What is oxygen?
Plants grow towards the sun to make it easier to photosynthesize.
What is Phototropism?
C6H12O6 is...
Glucose (Sugar)
The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
An organism in a food chain that eats the organisms which eat the producers.
What is secondary consumer?
Food chains that are interconnected/overlap in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
Living organisms in an ecosystem are called...
What is biotic?
An organism that is not indigenous, or native, to a particular area.
What is an invasive species?
phytoplankton -> minnow -> tuna -> shark
This is an example of a...
What is a food chain?
Something that is needed by an organism and is not infinite in it's abundance in an ecosystem; once exhausted, the organisms that need it cannot survive
What is a limited resource?
This trophic level represents when an organism eats a producer.
What is a primary consumer? (Level 2)
The directions of the arrows show...
What is energy flow?
A single self-contained living thing
What is an organism?
What is 10%?
What is competition?
What is 10%?
What is a population?
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms
What are decomposers?
plants, animals, bacteria, fungi are examples of this type of factor in an ecosystem
What are biotic factors?
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
The source of energy that is absorbed by plants for photosynthesis.
What is sunlight?
A dependent interaction is defined as this
What is when an organism depends on a factor for survival in an ecosystem?
An organism that eats secondary consumers.
What is a tertiary consumer.
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer
The order of "what eats what" for a specific set of organisms. It is linear.
What is a food chain?
The organisms at the bottom of the food pyramid are called this...
What are producers?
Air, water, and the sun are all ......
What are abiotic factors?
O2
CO2
What is Carbon Dioxide?