Vocabulary
Food Chains/Webs
Energy Pyramid
Photosynthesis
Competition
100
Limiting factor
What is any resource that limits the growth of populations?
100
Niche
What is the special role an organism plays in a community?
100
Energy pyramid
What is a diagram that shows the amount of energy available at each level of an ecosystem?
100
Provides energy for photosynthesis.
What is the sun?
100
Common abiotic limiting factors (4)
What is sunlight, water, temperature, weather, soil type, space, shelter.
200
Consumers
What are animals/living organisms that eat plants or other animals to get energy?
200
Carrying Capacity
What is the greatest number or individuals within a population that an ecosystem can support?
200
Tiny pores in leaves that allow gases to enter and exit.
What is stomata?
200
The fight for limited resources.
What is competition?
300
Ecosystem
What is all living and non-living things in an environment?
300
Amount of food energy from the sun a producer uses.
What is 10%?
300
How plants sleep.
What is the stomata close at night because of no sunlight.
400
Community
What are all living things in an ecosystem?
400
The difference between a food web and a food chain
What is many organisms are part of more than one food chain, that are interconnected to make a food web.
400
The four levels of an energy pyramid (from bottom to top)
What is producer, herbivores, 1st tier carnivores, top tier carnivores?
400
How plants are important to the balance of nature.
What is provide food, shelter, tools, and products for animals and people.
500
Mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism
What are examples of symbiosis?
500
Reason it is important to have predators in an ecosystem
What is predators help to control the size of the prey populations?
500
Explanation of how decomposers fit into the energy pyramid.
What is decomposers are on all sides and in each level of the pyramid. They break down dead, decaying plants and animals in any level.
500
The formula for plants to make starch, fats and proteins.
What is CO2 + H2O = Glucose and O2
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