Levels of Organization
(Hint: Biotic Factors include Plants & Animals)
What is Community?
the path by which energy passes from
one living thing to another
What is a Food Chain?
DIRECTLY DRIVEN BY EVAPORATION, CONDENSATION, AND PRECIPITATION
What is the Water Cycle?
This cycle runs through Rocks, Soil, and Water
What is the Phosphorus Cycle?
About ___ of the air we breath is nitrogen but we can’t
directly use this
What is 78%?
This is the Smallest Level of Organization.
(Hint: You)
What is Organism?
Herbivores, Carnivores, and Omnivores
What are Consumers?
is broken down and the carbon is stored or used to build tissues
What is Food?
Mainly held in rocks and released from and Plays a major role in plant growth
What is Weathering?
WHICH ORGANISMS CONVERT NITROGEN GAS INTO USABLE AMMONIA
What is Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria?
This is ALL species of the Same Group.
(Hint: Box of Puppies or Litter of Kittens)
What is Population?
A more realistic way of looking at the relationship
of plants and animals in an environment
What is a Food Web?
PROCESS REMOVES CARBON DIOXIDE FROM
THE ATMOSPHERE
THE PHOSPHORUS CYCLE DIFFERS FROM THE NITROGEN AND CARBON CYCLES BECAUSE
What is not able to cycle through the Atmosphere?
MAIN RESERVOIR OF NITROGEN
What is the Atmosphere?
This houses an Ecosystem of both Biotic & Abiotic factors.
(Hint: You've completed a Project on this)
What is Biome?
The difference between Autotrphs and Heterotrophs
What are Plants (makes their own food) vs Animals (eat other animals for food)?
PROCESS RELEASES CARBON DIOXIDE BACK
INTO THE ATMOSPHERE
What is (Cellular) Respiration?
returns phosphorus to soil
What is Decomposition?
MOST DIRECTLY LINKED TO THE
PRODUCTION OF PROTEINS AND NUCLEIC ACIDS
What is the Nitrogen Cycle?
This is the last Level of Organization.
(Hint: Earth)
What is Biosphere?
return the nutrients that are in a living
thing to the soil
What is a Decomposer?
An important part of this cycle. When wood or fossil fuels are burned, carbon dioxide is released
What is Combustion?
MOST IMPORTANT FOR ATP AND DNA STRUCTURE
What is the Phosphorus Cycle?
release of nitrogen gas back into the atmosphere by breakdown of nitrogen compounds and ammonia by other bacteria
What is Denitrification?