Misc.
Most plants appear green because chlorophyll does what?
Reflects green light
The flow of energy from one thing to another
Food Chain/Food Web
What happens if otters are removed from an ecosystem?
The urchin population rises
True or False
If Kelp wanted to counteract the activity of grazers like sea urchins, they should produce bad-tasting or toxic chemicals to deter the sea urchins from eating them.
What is True
Which factor does NOT limit the growth of kelp forests?
Space
Temperature
Light
Salinity
Salinity means the measure of dissolved salts in water
What is Salinity
What does a Primary Consumer eat?
What are producers
The direction of the flow of energy in a food web is represented by
What are arrows
This type of organism creates its own food
What is a producer
What are the two main parts of an ecosystem?
What is Biotic and Abiotic
True or False
Sea otters' fur is the densest fur of any animal
True
A consumer who eats plants
Herbivore
Omnivore
Carnivore
What is a herbivore
A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem
What is a food web
Organisms that eat other organisms for energy
What is a consumer
The different living things (plants and animals) in an area
What is species diversity
Which of the following is an example of an autotroph-
Autoroph=an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, and carbon dioxide. "Producer"
Leopard
Hummingbird
Sunflower
Krill
What is a sunflower?
What are the products of photosynthesis?
What is oxygen and glucose
All food webs and food chains begin with
What is producers
A species that helps to hold an ecosystem together
What is a keystone species?
What uses energy from the sun to make their own food and are the base of energy pyramids
What is a Producer
True or False
Energy increases as you move up the food pyramid (from bottom to top)
False
Energy decreases as it moves up trophic levels because energy is lost as they are consumed from one level to another.
What is the chemical formula for glucose?
What is C(6) H(12) O(6)
Why might an organism have more than one arrow coming from them in a food web?
More than one organism may eat them
What do you call ONE species all living in the same environment?
What is a population?
What is it called when two or more species are competing for the same resource?
What is competition
What is the process in plants that produce food for the plants and oxygen?
What is photosynthesis