Food Webs and Food Chains
Provide an example of a producer and a consumer.
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How do producers get their energy?
From the sun/photosynthesis
How many kingdoms are there?
6
What do we call an organism that eats both plants and animals?
Omnivore
List 5 trophic levels in order (bottom to top).
Producers --> Primary Consumer --> Secondary Consumer --> Tertiary Consumer --> Quaternary Consumer
How do consumers get their energy?
Eating other organisms.
What type of succession happens after glacier melt or lava flow?
Primary
What kingdom contains vertebrates and invertebrates?
Kingdom Animalia
What are the 4 biogeochemical cycles?
Carbon, Hydrologic, Phosphorus, Nitrogen
How much energy gets passed from one trophic level to the next?
10%
What organism eats dead or decay material?
Decomposers
Give two examples of a pioneer species in primary succession.
Mosses, lichen
Who's the guy behind natural selection?
List an example of an abiotic factor.
Temperature, Air, Light, pH, minerals, etc.
Your secondary trophic level has 32.5 kcals of energy, what goes above (to tertiary consumer) and below?
Primary 3250, Primary Consumer 325, Secondary Consumer 32.5, Tertiary 3.25
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
Food chain: Simple direct line of consumption
Food web: Complex consumption diagram
Give an example of a disturbance in secondary succession.
Fire, flood, hurricane, etc.
Vertebrates and Invertebrates
What is the difference between resistance and resiliency?
Resistance: the ability to withstand a disturbance
Resiliency: ability to recover and return to the original state after a disturbance
Draw a food pyramid with 5 trophic levels, 5 organisms and label it it with the appropriate producers/consumers.
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Where does the other 90% of energy go during consumption?
Lost as heat/used for metabolic processes
If an ecosystem has less resilience, does it have a fast or slow recovery?
Slow
What are the two types of plants?
Gymnosperms and Angiosperms
What is the point of the biogeochemical cycles?
To recycle materials to be reused