Trophic Level
The role of Flowers and Grass in Legacy Park
What are producers?
The part of the CER argument that states your main belief or conclusion
What is claim?
Food, water, and shelter are the three essential components of this, which is necessary for population stability.
What is Habitat?
The name for the non-living things in an ecosystem, such as Sunlight, Water, and Air.
What is abiotic factors?
The role of mushrooms and worms in Legacy Park
What are decomposers?
The part of the CER argument that must contain specific numbers or data from the graphs to be convincing.
What is the Evidence?
The Ivy is an example of a biotic factor limiting the Flowers, while Water Availability is an example of this kind of limiting factor.
What is an Abiotic Factor?
This is the ecological term for all of the different living populations (Plants, Rabbits, Wolves, Birds, etc.) that interact in Legacy Park.
What is community?
The percentage of energy that transfers from one trophic level to another
What is 10%
The goal of the Reasoning section, beyond just repeating the Claim and Evidence.
What is to explain how the evidence proves the claim?
The entire area of Legacy Park, which includes all the living organisms, the soil, the air, and the water, all interacting as one complex unit.
What is an Ecosystem?
The general term for a species that is non-native and causes harm to an ecosystem.
What is an Invasive Species?
Based on the food chain, a Small Bird that eats seeds and beetles is this type of Consumer.
What is an omnivore? or Primary and Secondary Consumer
The final, crucial step in a strong argument that connects the Claim and Evidence using scientific principles.
What is the reasoning?
The name for the environmental conditions (like low water, or high Ivy population) that keep a population size from increasing indefinitely.
What are Limiting Factors?
The abiotic factor that the English Ivy reduced for the native Flowers, causing the Flowers' population to crash.
What is Sunlight?
The specific biotic factor that was the most direct limiting factor for the Wolf population in Legacy Park.
What are rabbits?
This is the mistake made if you use the stable Sunlight data to argue that the Flowers declined, even though the Ivy data is much more relevant.
What is using irrelevant evidence?
The term for the maximum number of organisms an environment can sustain.
What is Carrying Capacity?
The collective term for the Rabbit, Wolf, and Small Bird in the Legacy Park food web, since they cannot make their own food.
What is a Heterotroph?