Energy Pyramids
The Water Cycle
The Carbon Cycle
Graph Analysis
Vocabulary Challenge!
100
The lowest trophic level of the energy pyramid includes these organisms.
What are producers?
100
The process by which water in the atmosphere returns to the Earth's surface.
What is precipitation?
100
The majority of the Earth's carbon is stored here.
What is the ocean?
100
The vertical axis in the graph generally shows this variable.
What is dependent variable?
100
This is another name for the third level consumer on an energy pyramid.
What is tertiary consumer?
200
The top of the energy pyramid is where you will find this.
What is the apex predator?
200
The process by which water in the atmosphere changes state from gas to liquid.
What is condensation?
200
This type of ocean water holds less carbon.
What is warm water?
200
All graphs should take up approximately this much of the graph area.
What is two-thirds?
200
When populations in an ecosystem stabilize and all species are able to coexist in an ecosystem without any overpopulating or dying out, this occurs.
What is dynamic equilibrium?
300
As energy is transferred from a lower level to a higher level, this percentage of energy is "lost."
What is 90%?
300
This takes place when liquid water changes to water vapor and enters the atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
300
Carbon moves from animals to the atmosphere during this process.
What is respiration?
300
This variable is commonly found on the horizontal axis.
What is the independent variable?
300
This symbiotic relationship occurs when one species benefits and the other species is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
400
This is the reason there is generally only one or two apex predators in an ecosystem.
What is the compounded loss of energy due to the 10% rule.
400
About 97% of Earth's water is found here.
What is the ocean?
400
The greenhouse effect is thought to be a result of increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere caused by these two human activities.
What are burning fossil fuels and deforestation?
400
This type of graph is most appropriate to show a change in an organism's population over time.
What is a line graph?
400
This is the name for an organism the eats the flesh off of the carcass of another dead organism.
What is a scavenger?
500
When organisms "burn" food to release energy, this chemical- known as the energy unit of the body- is produced.
What is ATP or Adenosine TriPhosphate?
500
The amount of water on Earth's surface during the Ice Age compared to now.
What is it's the same?
500
Carbon moves from the atmosphere to plants during this process.
What is photosynthesis?
500
When studying a graph showing populations of animal species A and animal species B. You observe that there is a sharp drop in species A followed by a sharp increase in species B. From this, you draw this conclusion about the relationship between species A and species B.
What is species A is a predator and species B was its' prey?
500
Bacteria and fungi are known as these.
What are decomposers?
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