Organisms
Factors, Etc.
Vocabulary
Energy
Other
100
Populations of organisms living together
What is a community?
100
Plants and all living things are grouped together under this name.
What is a biotic factor?
100
A community of organisms and their physical environment.
What is an ecosystem?
100
The capacity to do work.
What is energy?
100
I produce my food through a process called photosynthesis.
What is a producer?
200
I am not a consumer.
What is a producer?
200
Light and many other non-living things are know as this.
What is an abiotic factor?
200
This shows the relationship between many different food chains in a single ecosystem.
What is a food web?
200
Heat
What is the least useful form of energy?
200
All the populations of organisms living together in an environment.
What is a community?
300
An organism which feeds only on consumers.
What is a carnivore?
300
In a pyramid of energy the lowest quantity of energy per unit area would be in this trophic level.
What is the higest trophic level?
300
Organisms of the same kind living in the same environment.
What is a population?
300
This type of energy is stored in plants in the form of sugar.
What is potential, or chemical energy?
300
The mass or amount of living material is refered to as:
What is biomass?
400
Primary consumers eat this.
What is a plant?
400
A member of a pioneer community on rock.
What are lichens?
400
A single form of life.
What is an organism?
400
Plants convert this type of energy into form that supports most other life on Earth.
What is radiant energy (from the sun)?
400
Living things that must eat to get energy.
What are consumers?
500
Microorganisms, termites, worms and fungi are known as this.
What are decomposers?
500
Not usually the most abundant species in the ecosystem, but highly influencial.
What is a keystone species?
500
Consumers that break down tissues of decaying organisms.
What is a decomposer?
500
The pyramid of energy has its charactoristic shape because of this law of thermodynamics.
What is the second law (some of the energy converted is lost to heat).
500
Each level or link in a food web or food chain.
What are trophic levels?
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