Ecosystems 1
The type of plankton that is a producer in the oceanic food web.
What is marine phytoplankton?
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
Plants make ________using a process called________ .....
What are glucose and photosynthesis?
In Primary Succession, the base material is is....
What is rock?
How much energy is transferred between trophic levels?
What is 10%
Fungi are on the food chain and they are responsible for ________________
What is breaking down decaying materils
The process in photosynthesis that requires energy from the sun.
What is the light reaction?
The base material in Secondary Succession
What is soil?
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is compete?
bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, sow bugs
What are some examples of decomposers?
Long term relationship between 2 different organisms where at least one depends on the other.
What is symbiosis?
This process allows plants to get rid of excess water so they do not burst.
What is transpiration
The first inhabitants in ecological succession
What is a Pioneer Species?
An organism that eats dead and decaying organisms
What are scavengers?
Something made up of biotic and abiotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
The source of all energy in a food web.
What is the sun?
Tiny holes on the underside of leaves and stems.
What are stomata
Examples of things that can cause an ecosystem to start at secondary succession are....
What is fire, mudslide, deforestation?
The form of symbiosis where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
This diagram shows how organisms obtain energy in an environment.
What is a food web?
The form of energy cells can use
What is ATP
An animal the eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
Cellular respiration occurs in this organelle.
What is the mitochondria?
The highest and most stable level of ecological succession.
What is a Climax Community?