Sorting Out Life
Mono Lake
Finding the Energy
Leaf pack
Eat or be Eaten
100
one single organism
What is an individual
100
This is an example of an alkaline lake ecosystem.
What is Mono Lake?
100
A kilocalorie
What is the unit for food energy?
100
Organisms that are large enough to be seen that have no backbone
What are macroinvertebrates
100
This type of organism makes its own food
What is a producer?
200
All the organisms of one species in a location at one time.
What is a population?
200
These are the two first level consumers in the Mono Lake ecosystem.
What are brine shrimp and brine fly?
200
a plant eater
what is a primary consumer?
200
A variable that the experimenter changes on purpose
What is an independent variable?
200
These organisms eat other organisms
What are consumers?
300
All the interacting populations in a specified area.
What is a community?
300
A model that demonstrates the feeding relationships in an ecosystem
What is a food web?
300
The process by which food is made from water, carbon dioxide, and light.
What is photosynthesis?
300
The variable that is measured in a controlled experiment to answer the experimental question.
What is the dependent variable?
300
This complex model depicts all the feeding relationships in an ecosystem
What is a food web?
400
A system of interacting organisms and non-living factors in a specified area.
What is an ecosystem?
400
The interactions among organisms and abiotic factors at the Mono Lake Basin.
What is the Mono Lake Ecosystem?
400
The three trophic levels.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
400
These "tries" improve the accuracy of data collected.
What are multiple trials?
400
These symbols depict the flow of energy through an ecosystem
What is an arrow?
500
The living and nonliving elements in an ecosystem.
What are biotic and abiotic factors?
500
about 10 percent
How much of all food consumed is converted to biomass?
500
a calorie
What is the amount of energy required to heat 1 ml of water 1 degree celcius?
500
These sensitive organisms can help determine the stream's cleanliness
what are bio-indicatiors
500
These organisms eat secondary comsumers
What are tertiary consumers?
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