Definitions
Living
What is biotic?
The process in plants that produces sugar
What is photosynthesis
Deer eats grass. Hawks eat deer.
What is grass --> deer --> hawk?
Who makes their own food
What is a producer?
If the producers die, then...
What is everything else in the ecosystem will die?
Breaks down dead organic matter into nutrients
What is decomposers?
Carrots --> Rabbit --> Fox
Rabbit is a...
What is primary consumer?
Bottom of a food web
What is a producer?
Eats secondary consumers
What is tertiary consumers
The variety of life
What is biodiversity?
A place of interacting biotic and abiotic factors
What is an ecosystem?
When there is/are more _________, an ecosystem can better recover from stresses on the ecosystem
What is there are more populations of different species?
Levels in a food pyramid
What is trophic level?
____________ requires energy
What is everything?
The general rule on how to keep an ecosystem sustainable.
What is more prey than predator?
A benefit that humans obtain from the ecosystem (cannot be manmade)
What is ecosystem services?
The products of photosynthesis
What is O2 and sugar?
The amount of biomass transferred from one organisms to the next.
What is 10%?
A group of similar ecosystems
What is a biome?
An introduced species that has a negative impact on an ecosystem.
What is an invasive species?
Any biotic or abiotic component of the ecosystem that controls the size of a population
What is a limiting factor?
The products of ACR
What is CO2, H2O and energy?
The organism with the least amount of biomass in an ecosystem.
What is the apex consumer?
The way biomass is created.
What is through photosynthesis and ACR?
The way a power plant can affect other ecosystems.
What is pollution, global warming, etc?