Trophic Levels
Mostly herbivores
Second bottom
What are primary consumers?
Water changing into droplets in the clouds.
What is condensation?
Snake
What is a tertiary consumer?
Cycled from the soil to producers then from producers to consumers in short term.
What are Phosphates?
Decomposers return this back to the soil after an organism dies.
What is phosphorus?
Eat primary consumers. Can be omnivores or carnivores.
Middle of pyramid
What are secondary consumers?
Water the flows down hills.
What is runoff?
Butterfly
What is a primary consumer?
Returns the phosphorus back to the soil so the cycle can start again.
What are decomposers?
This returns to the atmosphere through denitrification.
What is nitrogen?
Have no predators other than humans
Top of the pyramid
What are apex predators?
Water going into the clouds.
What is evaporation?
Tree
What is a producer?
Matter is constantly moving and being exchanged in the Biosphere.
What is the Biogeochemical Cycle?
The two elements used in the carbon and oxygen cycle
What is oxygen and carbon dioxide?
Make their own food
Bottom of pyramid
What are producers?
What is transpiration?
Eagle
What is an apex predator?
A process in which bacteria converts fixed nitrogen back into nitrogen gas.
What is denitrification?
Plants use this to make proteins in the nitrogen cycle.
What is fixed nitrogen?
Eats primary and secondary consumers
Second top of pyramid
What are tertiary consumers?
Water falling from the clouds.
What is precipitation?
Rat
What is a secondary consumer?
The capture and conversion of nitrogen into a form that is useable by plants
What is nitrogen fixation?
The process that the carbon and oxygen cycle use
What is photosynthesis?