Ecosystems
Life Cycles
Levels of Organization
Organisms and their Food Sources
Energy Flow Models
100
Put the following organisms into a realistic food chain. algae, bass, bear, minnow
What is algea ---> minnow ---> bass --->bear?
100
The cycle that does not involve the atmosphere.
What is the phosphorous cycle?
100
The sentence for the six levels of organization.
What is Only People Can Eat Big Burgers?
100
Organisms that can make their own food.
What are autotrophs?
100
This symbol separates each trophic level in a food chain or web.
What is an arrow?
200
Put the following organisms into a realistic food chain. fly, fruit, lizard, spider
What is fruit ---> fly ---> spider ---> lizard?
200
The process in which water evaporates from the leaves of plants.
What is transpiration?
200
The level defined as all parts of the earth where life exists.
What is biosphere?
200
Organism that can not make its own food.
What is heterotroph?
200
This energy model is most realistic.
What is a food web?
300
An example of a detritivore.
What is an earthworm, a mite, shrimp, etc.?
300
The process by which heterotrophs return carbon to the atmosphere, biologically.
What is respiration (breathing)?
300
This level is a single member of a species.
What is organism?
300
This is another term for an autotroph.
What is producer?
300
This group of organisms should always be at the beginning of a food chain, web or ecological pyramid.
What is producers?
400
An example of a decomposer.
What is a mushroom or bacteria?
400
This cycle takes the longest because of the geochemical process of building rock from sediment and weathering.
What is the phosphorous cycle?
400
This level includes ecosystems that have a similar climate, vegetation and organisms.
What is a biome?
400
This is another term for a heterotroph.
What is a consumer?
500
An example of a scavenger.
What is a vulture, a raccoon, a hyena, etc.?
500
The process by which organisms return Carbon, Nitrogen and Phosphorus to the earth.
What is die and decompose?
500
This level includes members of the same species that live in the same area, interact and interbreed.
What is population?
500
Organism that eats plants only.
What is a herbivore?
500
This is another name for the herbivores making up the second trophic level of a food chain or web.
What are primary consumers?
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