FOOD CHAINS AND FOOD WEBS
This organism makes its own food using sunlight.
What is a producer?
The level with the MOST energy.
What is trophic level 1 ( Producer Level)
Process plants use to make glucose.
What is photosynthesis?
Matter in ecosystems does this instead of being lost.
What is cycles?
If producers decrease, what happens to consumers?
What is they decrease?
This type of organism eats other organisms for energy.
What is a consumer (heterotroph)?
About this percent of energy transfers to the next trophic level.
What is 10%
Process that releases energy from glucose.
What is cellular respiration?
This element makes up 78% of the atmosphere but must be fixed to be used.
What is nitrogen?
If decomposers disappeared, what would happen to nutrients?
What is they would not return to the soil?
Arrows in a food chain show this.
What is the direction of energy flow?
This is what happens to the other 90% of energy.
What is lost as heat / used for life processes?
Gas taken in during photosynthesis.
Gas taken in during photosynthesis.
Organisms that return nutrients to the soil.
What are decomposers?
Why can energy not be recycled like matter?
What is energy is lost as heat?
A network of multiple food chains is called this.
What is a food web?
Why are there fewer organisms at the top of the pyramid?
What is less energy available?
Gas released during respiration.
What is carbon dioxide?
This cycle does NOT heavily involve the atmosphere.
What is the phosphorus cycle?
A farmer adds fertilizer (nitrogen). What happens to plant growth?
What is it increases?
If a top predator is removed, this happens to the population below it.
➡️ What is the population increases?
If producers have 10,000 energy units, how much do secondary consumers get?
What is 100 units?
How are photosynthesis and respiration related?
What is the products of one are the reactants of the other?
Why is Earth considered a closed system for matter?
What is matter is not created or destroyed, only recycled?
A disease wipes out most of the plant life in an ecosystem. Predict how this will affect energy flow and the cycling of matter over time.
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