Ecosystems
This includes all biotic and abiotic factors.
What is an ecosystem
What is the original source of energy for an ecosystem?
What is the sun.
The process that take carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and converts it into glucose.
What is photosynthesis?
Cutting down forests is called.
What is deforestation.
What is a consumer that only eats producers.
What is a herbivore.
This refers to a group of organisms that can interbreed
What is a population or species
Organisms that make their own food.
What is a producer or autotroph.
The process where carbon dioxide is released back into the atmosphere by organisms.
What is cellular respiration.
What gas contributes most to global warming?
What is carbon dioxide.
What is an omnivore.
The role an organism plays in its environment
What is a niche
What percentage of energy goes to the next trophic level?
What is 10%
The process converts nitrogen gas into a usable form.
What is nitrogen fixation.
What is the most common way the pollution enters the water systems?
What is runoff.
A relationship where both species benefit.
What is mutualism.
Describes different populations living in the same area
What is a community
What do we can a consumer that is not hunted by anything else?
This process that converts ammonia into nitrites that can be used by plants.
What is nitrification.
What is the process in which carbon dioxide enters the ocean?
What is ocean acidification.
A relationship where one benefits and the other is hamred.
What is parasitism.
Name an abiotic factor and how it can effect an ecosystem.
What is sun, temp, weather, etc. Can make organisms move or adapt over periods of time.
What is the name for a diagram that shows energy flow?
What is a food chain or food web.
What is one result of human impacts on the nitrogen cycle?
What is eutrophication.
List one way humans can reduce ecological impacts.
What is recycling, renewable energy, conservation efforts, etc.
The process of plants losing water through the stomata in their leaves.
What is transpiration.