Vocab 1
Water that falls to Earth from a cloud.
Precipitation
An animal that is eaten by another animal.
Prey
Give an example of something that disrupts the carbon/oxygen cycle.
Burning fossil fuels.
Give 2 examples of biotic factors.
Give an example of a secondary consumer.
Wolf
Organisms that make food.
Producers
A large group of similar ecosystems with similar climates and living things.
Biome
Give 2 examples of the water cycle.
Condensation, Precipitation, Evaporation, Transpiration
What is a generalist?
An animal that can eat many different foods and live in different areas.
Give an example of parasitism.
Tape worm in a pig.
Organisms that live by breaking apart dead organic matter into simpler parts.
Decomposers
The nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
Abiotic Factors
How much energy do you lose in each level of the trophic levels?
10%
At what level is biomagnification the most concentrated?
The top carnivore.
Consists of all the different living and nonliving things in an area.
Ecosystem
The process through which water evaporated from a plant's leaves.
Transpiration
A species relationships with the biotic and abiotic factors of the ecosystem.
Niche
Give an example of how nitrogen flows through a cycle.
Taken in by plants, plants are eaten by animals, animals give off as waste, returns to soil.
Give an example of mutualism.
Clownfish living with anemone.
An animal that occupies a very specific niche.
Specialist
The process through which oxygen and glucose are combined to produce carbon dioxide and water.
Respiration
A relationship between 2 species in which one species benefits, while to other species is neither harmed nor helped.
Commensalism
What is the formula for Photosynthesis?
Carbon Dioxide + Water + Energy = Glucose + oxygen
What are the 6 biomes?
Tundra, Tiaga, Grassland, Temperate Forest, Tropical Rainforest, Desert
A model that shows how energy moves from one level to another.
Energy Pyramid