Unit 2 Vocab
How fast a population grows
Growth Rate
Racoon
Omnivore
Rainforest
What would happen if we didn't have primary producers?
We couldnt breath/ there would be no oxygen
An organism that eats other organisms
Carnivore
Any factor that controls the growth of a population
Limiting Factor
Vulture
Scavenger
Extreme temperatures from hot to cold, soils are rich in materials but poor in organic material
Desert
What is the difference between a consumer and a heterotroph?
Nothing they are the same thing
A series of organisms in which energy is transferred form one organism to another
food chain
How many individuals leave a population
Emigration
Grass
Photosynthetic Primary Producers
Tropical Grassland/ Savanna/ Shrubland
All the food chains combined together in an ecosystem creates what?
Food Web
Start of the food chain or food web. Uses Chemosynthesis or Photosynthesis to produce food
Primary Producer
A factor that operates stronger when populations density is high
Density Dependent Limiting Factor
Earthworms
Detritivores
Cold Winters/ Warm summers - coniferous trees produce see bearing cones
Temperate Forest
Name the 3 types of population distributions
clumped, random, uniform
Each step in a food chain or web
Trophic Level
Logistic Curve/ S Curve
Bacteria found in heated vents along the ocean floor
Chemosynthetic Primary Producers
Root Word comes from the Greek word meaning north. Dense forests of Evergreens along the Norther Edge of the Temperate Zone. Winters are bitter cold. Summers are long enough for the ground to thaw.
Boreal Forest/ Taiga
What percent of energy is passed on from one trophic level to the next?
10%
Shows the relative amount of energy available at each trophic level of a food web or chain
Pyramid of Energy