Energy Transfer
Needs of Organisms
Relationships
Cycles of Matter
Potpourri
100
Racoons eat almost anything, they are called ___.
What is an Omnivore?
100
The most important need for all organisms.
What is Water?
100
All the different feeding levels in an ecosystem.
What is a trophic level?
100
The evaporation of water from trees.
What is transpiration?
100
All the interconnected feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
200
An organism that eats only autotrophs.
What is an Herbivore?
200
The area claimed by an animal as its living space.
What is Territory?
200
Barnacle & Whales are an example.
What is commensalism?
200
Process where green plants convert sunlight into food energy.
What is Photosynthesis?
200
Algae is this type of organism in a food web.
What is a producer/autotroph?
300
Organisms that only eat other heterotrophs.
What is a Carnivore?
300
The role (job) an organism plays in its environment?
What is the Niche?
300
A dog and a tick are an example.
What is parasitism?
300

Decomposition of plants & animals is one way this element is cycled through the biosphere.

What is nitrogen?

300
Warm water holds less ____ than cold water.
What is Oxygen?
400
Organisms that feed on dead animals.
What is a Scavenger?
400
All of the materials an organism gets from its food.
What are nutrients?
400
The relationship where both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
400
These organism have a direct role in cycling nitrogen in the biosphere.
What what are bacteria, legumes and decomposers?
400
A bird that stalks, kills, and then eats an insect, are these types of organism in a food web.
What is carnivore & consumer?
500
Organisms that breakdown decaying matter.
What is a Decomposer?
500
When an organism's life processes slow down during times of little food.
What is Hibernation?
500
These organisms carry out nitrogen fixation.
What are bacteria?
500
Volanic activity is an example of this cycle.
What is biogeochemical?
500
The repeated movement of water between the Earth's atmosphere and the surface.
What is the water cycle?
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