A measure of the number of organisms that make up a population in a defined area. (EASY PEASY GUYS)
What is Population Density?
100
Recycling process converts the complex organic compounds to simple, inorganic compounds, which then can be returned to the ______ cycle and be used in nature again and again.
What is NUTRIENT CYCLE
100
_____ cycles from one organism to another in food webs.
What is Matter?
100
During the Deer activity when most deer died off was because __________.
the only resource available was shelter and no food or water was available.
200
A Grass hopper is a _______, it gets its energy from ______ that are ________.
HERBIVORE , PRODUCERS, AUTROPHS
200
The maximum stable population size an environment can support over time
What is Carrying Capacity?
200
Humans contribute to the return of CO2 by burning fossil fuels. What is another word for this?
What is Combustion?
Bonus: 3 Fossil Fuels examples?
200
What form is carbon found in environment?
Carbon Dioxide ( )
Where have we seen this?
200
only eats plants _________
only eats meat _________
Eats both plants and meat _______
All three are examples of ________ unlike plants.
- Herbivore
-Carnivore
-Omnivore
- Heterotrophs
300
Many consumers feed at more than one _________.
TROPHIC LEVEL
1st: PRODUCER ( where does it get its own food?)
2nd: PRIMARY CONSUMER
3rd: SECONDARY CONSUMER
4th: TERTIARY CONSUMER
300
List 5 factors that could limit a population size?
How do the limit?
_____ enters the atmosphere through combustion and respiration
What is Carbon?
300
Organisms return nitrogen to the atmosphere through _____. ______ help break down dead plants and animals or waste.
What is Decay, Decomposers
300
Acronyms that helps you connect the cycles to the food webs/chains.
CHO , CHO, CHON, CHONP
Macromolecules
400
Producers pass on ____ % energy to the primary consumers, who pass on _____ % to the next level. ______ % is lost in heat or used up.
What is the 10% RULE?
400
The number of _____ or _____ species determine the rest of the population.
What is predators or key stones
400
What would happen if carbon or nitrogen cycle did not return into the atmosphere?
Carbon Cycle : We would be up to our necks in waste
Nitrogen Cycle : Ammonia would build up
400
The amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web is shown in a
What is Energy Pyramid
400
Instead of being immediately recycled, the carbon from some organisms is kept in a type of long-term storage
What is Carbon sink
500
If an key organism is removed from a food web will this alter the ecosystem?
Yes, the whole structure would fall
500
Density __________ factors are factors whose effects on the size or growth of the population vary with population density.
Give 2 Examples
What is Density DEPENDENT?
Predation , Birth , Migration?, Immigration?
500
Transpiration, Precipitation,_______, and Evaporation are important parts of the "closed system" Water Cycle
What is Condensation?
BONUS POINTS: What is Transpiration? What does closed system mean?
500
_____ percent nitrogen gas makes up the Earth's atmosphere but is in _______ form. ______ and some bacteria fix it into ____ nitrogen.
What is 78% and unusable, Lightening Usuable
500
_______ is a omnivore that eats more meat than plants. In the energy pyramid ____- is a secondary consumer. This means _____ is in the ____ trophic level.
What is Ms. Lara , 3rd.
How is Ms. Lara a part of the Carbon cycle? Water Cycle? Nitrogen Cycle?