Is the source of the nutrients, carbon, oxygen and water and the main source of the climatic factors that impact on the ecosystem functioning.
What is the atmosphere?
100
Habitat.
What is a place where animals and plants live?
100
Carnivore.
What is an animal that eats other animals?
100
The cycle of a plant or animal when it returns to the soil, water, sunlight and air.
What is decomposing?
100
The main source of energy for functioning ecosystems.
What is the sun?
200
This is linked closely to the atmosphere and determines the nature of the water cycle in a particular area.
What is the hydrosphere?
200
Biotic and abiotic.
What is the two things that make up an ecosystem?
200
The fourth tropic level.
What is tertiary consumers?
200
The biosphere consists of two types of organisms>
What is autotrophs and heterotrophic?
200
Several populations interacting with each other in one habitat.
What is a community?
300
Is called the zone of life on earth, a closed system and largely self-regulating.
What is the biosphere?
300
The first tropic level.
What is producers?
300
A collection of living and dead organisms.
What is an ecosphere?
300
The food chains that are connected in an ecosystem make up a _________ ________.
What is a food web?
300
Single celled plants.
What is phytoplankton?
400
This determines the nature of soils and provides habitats for many of the decomposer organisms that recycle the minerals essential to the plants that form the basis of the food web.
What is lithosphere?
400
Is the science that examines the interactions between biotic and abiotic.
What is ecology?
400
The amount of biomass produced in an area and the amount of energy locked into all the organisms in an area contribute to the ____________ of an ecosystem.
What is productivity?
400
This topic is based around five levels.
What is organisms, populations, communities, ecosystems and the ecosphere?
400
Organisms that cannot manufacture their own food.
What is heterotrophic?
500
These form a chain that facilitates the flow of energy from the sun, through plants to various animals within the ecosystem.
What is producers, consumers and decomposers?
500
Ecosystems that are able to adapt to changing environments.
What is dynamic?
500
This is the amount of energy locked into all the organisms in an area, per unit of time.
What is an energy flow?
500
Organisms that can manufacture their own food.
What is autotrophs?
500
One source that produces the carbon cycle, phosphorus cycle, nitrogen cycle, water cycle and the oxygen cycle.