Energy and Life- Plants
Energy and Life- Eaters
Misc.
Life in a Community
Life in a Community too.
100
This is the source of energy for just about all organisms in every ecosystem on Earth?
The SUN
100
Organisms that eat other organisms are called?
Consumers
100
The _______is the source of energy for just about all organisms in every ecosystem on Earth.
SUN
100
In a community, every organism's life is connected to every other organism's life in some way. This interaction among living organisms, together with non living surroundings, such as weather, landscape, and environment are known as a___?
Ecosystem
100
The eruption of this volcano in 1980 could be heard 700 miles away and created the largest landslide in recorded history. This resulted in a devastated ecosystem which scientist have observed bounce back over 30 years.
Mt. St Helens
200
These organisms primarily convert sunlight into chemical energy. They are typically plants, and are often the initial stage of a food chain and/or web. These are also known as?
Producers - convert light into energy. Examples include; grasses, shrubs, trees, phytoplankton, water plants, seaweed and kelp.
200
Animals that eat only plants such as mice, elephants, deer, and caterpillars, are known as?
Herbivores - Primary Consumers
200
All the individuals of one kind (one species) in a specific area
Population
200
The robin will provide nutrients back to the tree its nests in when it dies. Organisms such as bacteria, mushrooms, and fungi will help this process. These organisms are known as?
Decomposers
200
Milkweed bugs appear to be identical on both sides of their body, with the same amount of antennae and legs on each side. The term used describe this similarity is?
Symmetry
300
Living organisms need _______ in order to perform the basic functions of life such as growth, reproduction, gas exchange elimination of waste, to get water and nutrients and to respond to its environment?
Energy
300
Organisms that eat primary consumers are called what?
Carnivores - Secondary consumers. They include Wolves, spiders, snakes, and hawks,
300
Guppies and elodea are examples of organisms that live in water. These are known as aquatic animals. Worms live on land. These are an example of _________ organisms.
Terrestrial
300
A sequence of organisms that eat one another in an ecosystem is known as a?
Food Chain
300
I only eat hotdogs, bacon, and pork chops. I am a
Carnivores
400
The process by which (primarily) green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to create food from carbon dioxide and water.
Photosynthesis (photo = light) (synthesis = put together)
400
Organisms that have a diet of both producers and consumers are called?
Omnivores.
400
2 year masting of acorns correlates precisely with a spike in this disease in humans.
Lyme disease.
400
*Daily Double* All the feeding relationships in an ecosystems can be represented as a?
Food Web
400
An organism that eats only detritus, breaking the organic material into smaller parts that a decomposer could use for food?
Detrivore
500
What is a green pigment found in the cells of plants and other photosynthetic organisms?
Chlorophyll
500
The 3rd level trophic layer includes consumers such as sharks, pelicans, orcas, polar bears, and barracudas. What trophic level do these organisms belong to?
The Tertiary. (They are Tertiary Consumers, they feed on secondary consumers.)
500
Populations are limited by predators, disease and lack of food supply. This type of "living" limiting factors to a population is known as a _____ factor.
Biotic factor / Biotic limit.
500
A terms to describe all the interacting populations in a specified area?
Community
500
Environmental limits, such as erosion, deforestation, earthquakes, flooding, fires, and drought, that limit a population's growth are known as ______ factors.
Abiotic factors / Abiotic limits.
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