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The amount of biomass produced in a given area during a given period of time.
What is PRODUCTIVITY?
Name an example of a detritivore.
What are ants/beetles?
All members of a species that live in the same area at the same time.
What is a POPULATION?
A complex, interlocking series of individual food chains in an ecosystem.
What is a FOOD WEB?
The populations of plants, animals, and microorganisms living and interacting in a certain area at a given time.
What is a BIOLOGICAL COMMUNITY?
The accumulated biological material produced by living organisms.
What is BIOMASS?
A step in the movement of energy through an ecosystem; an organism’s feeding status in an ecosystem.
What is a TROPHIC LEVEL?
An organism that obtains energy and nutrients by feeding on other organisms or their remains.
What are CONSUMERS?
Eats both plants and animals.
What is an OMNIVORE?
The destruction of which trophic level would lead to the collapse of an entire ecosystem?
What is the primary producers?
This is described as primary productivity.
What is photosynthesis?
Organism that consumes organic litter, debris, and dung.
What is a DETRITIVORE?
Organisms that mainly prey on animals.
What is a CARNIVORE.
A specific biological community and its physical environment interacting in an exchange or mater and energy.
What is an ECOSYSTEM?
Fungus or bacterium that breaks complex organic material into smaller molecules.
What are DECOMPOSERS?
A. Name two animals that can breed to produce a live offspring, but they are not the same species.
B. What is the offspring called?
C. If they can produce a live offspring, why are the parents not considered the same species?
A. What are a donkey and a horse?
B. What is a mule?
C. What is because the mule is infertile?
All the organisms genetically similar enough to breed and produce live offspring that are fertile.
What is a SPECIES?
In biology, an organism that consumes carrion, or organisms not killed by the predator.
What is a SCAVENGER?
Name an example of a scavenger?
What is a buzzard/vulture/jackal?
An organism that synthesizes food molecules from inorganic compounds by using an external energy source; most of them are photosynthetic.
What is a PRODUCER?
Organisms that eat only plants.
What are HERBIVORES?
What is the source of energy for almost all primary producers?
What is the sun?
What type of consumer would a goat be considered?
What is an HERBIVORE?
The circulation and reutilization of carbon atoms, especially via the processes of photosynthesis and respiration.
What is the CARBON CYCLE?
The circulation and reutilization of nitrogen in both inorganic and organic phases.
What is the NITROGEN CYCLE?