Carbon Cycle
The most abundant element on the planet
What is Carbon?
An informative way to represent energy flow through an ecosystem, it shows all of the feeding relationships.
What is a food web?
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species.
What are the levels in classification?
Meat eaters who feed on primary consumers.
What is a secondary consumer?
An animal that feeds on what another animal has killed is known as a
What is scavenger?
Autotrophs make their own food by using energy from the sun to make sugar.
What is Photosynthesis?
All food webs start with________
What is a producer?
The branch of biology that classifies organisms.
What is Taxonomy?
The largest trophic level that provides the base of the ecosystem
What is the producer trophic level?
Name the type of symbiosis:
* Hummingbirds feed on nectar from flowers.
* Flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds as they move from flower to flower.
What is mutualism?
Cells convert sugar to energy, CO2 is released.
What is Cellular Respiration?
Food webs are made from _____ _____ that overlap
What are food chains?
These are the six kingdoms for organisms.
What are Bacteria, Archaea, Protista, Plantae, Fungi, and Animalia?
This is transferred between trophic levels.
What is energy?
Name the type of symbiosis:
A barnacle attaches itself to a whale's fin
What is commensalism?
The process by which carbon is moved from dead animals to the ground
What is decomposition?
Every organism on a food web gets its energy from _____
What is the Sun?
The system of assigning a scientific name that consists of two parts.
What is Binomial Nomenclature?
Next to the producer trophic level, the largest amount of biomass is in the trophic level made up of plant eaters.
What is the primary-consumer trophic level?
Name the type of symbiosis:
Lice on a human
What is parasitism?
Three ways carbon is moved ground to the atmosphere
What is burning of fossil fuels, forest fires, and volcanic eruptions?
Make a food chain with the following:
Mouse, Seeds, Hawk, Snake
What is Seeds>Mouse>Snake>Hawk
The last word in an organism’s scientific name represents this.
What is the species?
At each trophic level, the amount of energy transferred to new biomass through growth and reproduction is only about ___% of what the organism eats.
What is 10%?
Name the type of symbiosis:
Lions and hyenas both chasing a warthog for food
What is competition?