Energy Flow
What term describes the movement of energy through a food chain?
Energy Flow
The rate at which producers create biomass and determines energy availability for the ecosystem is known as:
Primary Productivity
What is the variety of life in an area, ensuring resilience and functioning of ecosystems?
Biodiversity
Warmer and wetter climates _____ decomposition, while colder or drier conditions _____
speed up, slow it down
Herbivore
The role of a ______ in a food chain is to convert solar energy into chemical energy through photosynthesis.
Producer
Primary productivity is mainly performed by algae and ____.
Plants
What type of diversity refers to variations within species?
Genetic
Higher temperatures do what to decomposition
Accelerate
A lion is an animal that eats other animals and known as a:
Carnivore
______ is a step in a food chain or energy pyramid.
Trophic Level
Primary Productivity is measured in ____ or _____.
Energy or Biomass
The number of different species in a particular area is known as:
Species Richness
Droughts may _____ decomposition
Slow down
_____ consume other organisms to obtain energy.
Heterotrophs
What shows how all of the food chains in an ecosystem are connected?
Food Web
This factor, along with temperature, nutrient availability, and water availability, is a key limiting factor for primary productivity.
Sunlight
Habitat loss, pollution, climate change, and overexploitation are all known as threats to:
Biodiversity
____ is essential for decomposer activity.
Water
_____ breaks down organic matter, returning nutrients to the soil
Decomposition
What shows the decreasing amount of energy available as it moves up the trophic levels?
Energy pyramids
Primary Productivity forms the foundation of ______ in ecosystems.
Energy Flow
The diversity of ecosystems within a geographic location is known as:
Oxygen availability, temperature, and _____ are key climate factors affecting decomposition.
The movement of energy from one trophic level to another, as organisms consume each other is known as:
Energy Transfer