Organization of Life
Living things that can carry out life processes independently.
What are organisms?
Place where an organism usually lives.
What is a habitat?
The Earth's main energy source.
What is the sun?
A sequence in which energy is transferred from one organism to the next as each organism eats another organism.
What is a food chain?
Shows the mass of life in an ecosystem.
What is a pyramid of biomass?
Groups of various species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other.
What is a community?
The role an organism plays in it's environment.
What is a niche?
States that energy cannot be created nor destroyed.
What is the 1st Law of Thermodynamics?
Shows many feeding relationships that are possible in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
Each step in the transfer of energy through a food chain or food web.
What is a trophic level?
Examples are an oak forest or a coral reef.
What is an ecosystem?
Relationship where one species feeds on another.
What is predation or parasitism?
Process by which producers use sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to make carbohydrates and oxygen.
What is Photosynthesis?
Percent of the available energy that is transferred to the next trophic level.
What is 10?
Found at the base of an energy pyramid.
What are producers?
Includes air, water, rocks, and temperature.
What are Abiotic Factors?
Each species is helpful to each other.
What is mutualism?
An organism that can make organic molecules from inorganic molecules.
What is a producer?
The percent of energy that is either used up in biological processes or lost to the environment as heat.
What is 90?
Energy source is producers.
What are herbivores?
Environmental factors that are associated with or results from the activities of living organisms.
What are Biotic Factors?
Relationship that is +,0.
What is commensalism?
The process of breaking down food to yield energy.
What is cellular respiration?
Tertiary consumers receive 10 J of energy when producers have this amount.
What is 10,000 J?
Energy source is producers or consumers.
What are omnivores?