ECOLOGY
ECOLOGY/ENERGY FLOW
ENERGY FLOW
ENERGY FLOW
ENERGY FLOW/CYCLES OF MATTER
100
This is the scientific study of organism interactions with their environment
What is Ecology?
100
Collection of all organisms that live in a particular place, together with their nonliving environment.
What is Ecosystem?
100
Organisms that relie on other organisms for its food and energy.
What is Consumer?
100
A diagram that shows the relative amounts of energy or matter within each trophic level in a food chain.
What is Ecological Pyramid?
100
A network of complex interactions formed by the feeding relationships among the various organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a Food Web?
200
Part of Earth where life exists that include land, water, and air.
What is Biosphere?
200
Group of ecosystems that have the same climate and similar dominant communities.
What is Biome?
200
These organisms eat other animals for energy.
What is Carnivore?
200
Organisms that capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce food from inorganic compounds.
What is a Producer?
200
The total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level.
What is Biomass?
300
a group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring
What is Species?
300
Organisms that can capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce its own food.
What is Autotroph?
300
These organisms feed on plants and animal remains.
What is Detritivore?
300
Organisms that obtain energy from the food it consumes.
What is a Heterotroph?
300
The process by which elements, compounds, and other forms of matter are passed from one organism to another.
What is Biogeochemical Cycle?
400
A group of individuals within the same species that live in the same area.
What is Population?
400
Plants use light to create oxygen and high energy carbs.
What is Photosynthesis?
400
A series of steps in an ecosystem where organisms transfers energy by eating and being eaten.
What is the Food Chain?
400
Organisms that obtain energy by eating both plants and animals.
What is a Omnivore?
400
Water that changes from a liquid into an atmospheric gas.
What is Evaporation?
500
Different populations that live together in a defined area.
What is Community?
500
Process which organisms use chemical energy to produce carbs.
What is Chemosynthesis?
500
This is a step in a food chain or food web.
What is Trophic Level?
500
An organism that breaks down and obtains energy from dead matter.
What is a Decomposer?
500

The loss of water from a plant through its leaves.

What is Transpiration?

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