Energy Vocab
The source of all energy.
What is the sun?
This is what causes the algae to bloom in water.
What is nutrients?
This is the area where the rivers meet the ocean.
What is an Estuary?
This is the largest estuary in the United States.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
This is an organism that eats only meat or animal matter.
What is a carnivore?
This is the process of taking the light energy from the sun and turning it into glucose.
What is Photosynthesis?
This is the end result of eutrophication.
What is a dead zone?
This is an area of a body of water with reduced oxygen levels.
What is a dead zone?
This is the number of links one average in a food chain.
What is 4-5 links?
This is an organism that eats only plant matter.
This is a feeding level on a food chain or food web.
What is a Trophic Level?
This is what the specific decomposer is called in the water (Hint: These organisms use up all the oxygen in the water)
What is a microbe?
This type of pollution comes from farmlands and is washed into the Chesapeake Bay area.
What is nutrient pollution?
This is what it is called when there are no more of a species.
What is extinct?
This is the rule that only allows a small part of energy to transfer in the ecological pyramid.
What is the 10% Rule?
This is an organism that has few predators.
What is an Apex predator or Tertiary/ Quarternary Consumer?
This is the cause of all the fish and other organisms dying in a dead zone.
What is a lack of oxygen in the water?
This is the name for the dying/ dead algae at the bottom of the lake/ river bed.
What is detritus?
This is the toy that Bill Nye had stacked on top of one another to show the balance of Biodiversity.
What is wooden blocks?
This is an organism that would receive 10% of original energy from the sun.
What is a primary consumer?
This is what an ecosystem uses to transfer energy through the environment.
What is a food chain or food web?
This is a substance that covers the water beds and blocks sunlight from the sea floor plants.
What is algae blooms?
In our activity about the Chesapeake Bay this is the biggest factor that changed between food webs.
What is humans?
The 10% rule was represented by this in our green water lab.
This is an organism that receives and uses 100% of the energy from the sun.
What is a producer?