Energy
This is stored energy.
What is potential energy?
This type of organism must eat to obtain energy.
What is a consumer?
These organisms only eat plants only.
What are herbivores?
This is the number and variety of organisms in an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
This biome is characterized by the dominance of grasses.
What is a grassland?
This is the energy an object has because of the movement of its atoms and molecules.
What is thermal energy?
This is the process by which plants create their own food using the energy of the sun.
What is photosynthesis?
This is the name given to the parts of earth and surrounding atmosphere where there is life.
What is the biosphere?
This is the contamination of an ecosystem with substances that are harmful to life.
What is pollution?
This is a species that is at risk of extinction.
What is an endangered species?
This is the transfer of energy through electromagnetic waves. (The way the sun gives us energy.)
What is radiation?
This is an organism that eats a primary consumer.
What is a secondary consumer?
This is the largest number of individuals of one species that an ecosystem can support.
What is the carrying capacity?
This is a group of organisms that have similar traits and are able to reproduce fertile offspring.
What is a species?
This is anything that restricts the size of a population.
What is a limiting factor?
This is the transfer of thermal energy through a fluid by density differences.
What is convection?
This is a model of energy transfer that can show how the food chains in a community are interconnected.
What is a food web?
Population change can be measured by comparing these two factors.
What is the birthrate and the death rate?
These are the benefits that people obtain through their experiences with an ecosystem.
What are cultural services?
This is the changes in climate patterns over time.
What is climate change?
This energy is increased as an object is raised higher off the surface of the Earth.
What is gravitational potential energy?
This is the name given to the steps on a food pyramid.
What are trophic levels?
These organisms eat plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
These ecosystem services provide a product.
What are provisioning services?
This is the balance between the different parts of an ecosystem.
What is dynamic equalibrium?