Terms
A birds' nest or a bird itself are examples of this kind of factor.
Name for consumer who eats both producers and other consumers.
What is an omnivore?
Type of organisms capable of photosynthesis.
What are producers?
Term for the formation of clouds in the water cycle.
What is condensation?
The portion of the litho-, hydro-, and atmosphere where life can exist.
What is the biosphere?
Term for a species that is introduced into an ecosystem and has negative effects.
What is an invasive species?
Where all food webs and chains initially get their energy.
What is the sun?
Aquatic species that can photosynthesize.
What is algae?
Term for the evaporation of water from plants' leaves.
What is transpiration?
The type of consumer that feeds off of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
Term for a species that is no longer found in a specific area.
What is extirpated?
A quaternary consumer is at this trophic level.
What is the 5th?
Green pigment in plant that allows for photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
Type of plant that with symbiotic bacteria on its roots that fix nitrogen.
What are legumes?
Biodiversity is often measured using this, a tally of the number of species in an area.
What is species richness?
Factors that restrict the size of a population of where a species can live.
What are limiting factors?
What is 10%?
Products of cellular respiration.
What are energy, water, and carbon dioxide?
The names of the three elements in synthetic fertilizers.
What are nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium?
Type of relationship where both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
The function a species serves in its ecosystem, including where it lives, what it eats, and how it behaves.
What is niche?
Form of usable energy produced in cellular respiration.
What is ATP?
Type of molecule that doesn't contain both carbon and hydrogen.
What is inorganic?
IUCN is short for this, the organization that classifies species at risk.