Ecology
Energy, Producers, and Consumers
Energy Flow in Ecosystems
Cycles of Matter
100
Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their physical environment.
What is ecology?
100
The traditional method of measure of energy
What is calories?
100
Series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten
What is a food chain?
100
The two ways that matter moves through the biosphere are ____ & ____
What is solar energy & chemical energy?
200
Any living part of an environment (i.ei animals, plants, bacteria, fungus, protists)
What is biotic factors?
200
Capture energy from sunlight or chemicals (i.e. producers, plants)
What is autotrophs?
200
Network of complex interactions formed by the feeding relationships among the various organisms in an ecosystem
What is a food web?
200
The nutrient whose supply limits productivity
What is the limiting nutrient?
300
Any nonliving part of an environment (i.e. rocks, minerals)
What is abiotic factors?
300
Ingest other organisms for energy (i.e. consumers, animals)
What is heterotrophs?
300
Each step in a food chain or food web
What is a trophic level?
300
Condenation is different than precipitation because ____
What is condensation is when a gas goes to a liquid and precipitation is when water falls from the gas.
400
The Biosphere is the _______ level of organization
What is highest?
400
The 2 main types of producers (autotrophs) are _______ & _______
What is photosynthesis & chemosynthesis?
400
The tropic levels in order moving up a chain are: ____, ____, ____, & ____
What is primary, primary consumer, secondary consumer, & tertiary?
400
When energy is released from food
What is cellular respiration?
500
The lowest level or organization in a biosphere is _______
What is cells?
500
The 6 types of consumers (heterotrophs) are ____, ____, ____, ____, ____, & ____
What is carnivores, herbivores, scavengers, decomposers, omnivores, & detritivores?
500
When a disturbance happens at the top of the food chain, ____ happens
What is each of the populations under it alternate between prospering and losing population.
500
When energy is captured from the sun
What is photosynthesis?
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