What 3 cycles ensured a highly functioning ecosystem?
Water, carbon, and nitrogen.
Animals that feed on dead animals and other plants and put nutrients back into the soil.
What is Detritivore?
A set of ecosystems is called a__________.
A Biome
What do the arrows in a food web illustrate?
The flow of energy
This species is especially important in maintaining balance in a ecosystem
What is a keystone species
An animal that eats or consumes other animals is called...
What is Consumer?
What are three forms of carbon that we remove from the ground?
oil, gas, coal and (peat)
A deer is an animal that just eats plants (producers) is called:
What is an Herbivore?
Name 3 abiotic components of a forest ecosystem.
Soil, water, air.
What is is called when BOTH organisms benefit in an ecosystem?
What is an ecosystem?
A biological community including all the interactions between biotic and abiotic things in an environment.
How much energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next?
10%
How is Nitrogen "fixed" in an ecosystem?
Bacteria found in the ground or on nodules of plant roots.