Gasses
Food Web
Succession
Vocabulary
Pot Luck
100
This gas increases when fossil fuels are burned
What is Carbon Dioxide?
100
Organisms that get energy ONLY from producers
What is Herbivores?
100
Type of succession that occurs after a volcanic eruption or flood
What is secondary succession?
100
Excessive fertilizers ( phosphates ) in a water ecosystem can cause
What is algal bloom?
100
Part algae part fungus
What is lichen?
200
This makes up 78% of our atmoshpere
What is Nitrogen?
200
Organisms that get solar energy indirectly from the sun
What is Consumers?
200
A gradual process of change and replacement
What is ecological succession?
200
Final, stable community
What is Climax Community?
200
Burning large amounts of fossil fuels causes an increase in ________________ in the atmosphere
What is carbon dioxide?
300
These make it possible for making nitrogen usable
What is Nitrogen fixing bacteria?
300
Which organisms are likely to be at the bottom of a trophic level
What is producers, plants?
300
Occurs on surface where an ecosytem existed
What is secondary succession?
300
This natural diaster helps communities by releasing seeds and clearing away deadwood
What is fires?
300
Bacteria that live in the roots of soybeans transform nitrogen into
What is gas for release?
400
Burning ____________ has increased amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
What is Fossil Fuels?
400
Term that refers to many food chains ( feeding relationships)
What is Food web?
400
Growth of plants after a forest fire destoyed a forest
What is secondary?
400
Coal and oil contain ________ from dead plants and animals
What is carbon?
400
TRUE OR FALSE Algae are photosynthetic organisms
What is True?
500
Largest carbon resevoirs on earth
What is Limestone deposits?
500
TRUE OR FALSE - Consumers get their energy DIRECTLY from the sun
What is False?
500
In secondary succession, plants grow ( slowly, quickly)
What is quickly?
500
An empty, unused parking lot and a retreating glacier are examples of
What is primary succession?
500
If an abandoned field remains undisturbefd for over 125 years, this would be growing (young shrubs, old mature oak trees)
What is Old mature trees?
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