Ecosystem Roles
Which type of organism converts radiant energy into chemical (potential) energy for food?
What is an Autotroph/Producer
This is the original source of energy for almost every food chain on Earth.
What is the sun?
Which type of animal primarily gets its food from dead animals?
What is a scavenger?
What type of force is required for an object to accelerate?
Unbalanced force
Best selling single platform video game?
Wii Sports
What is the term used for an organism that eats other organisms? (the answer is not consumer)
What is a heterotroph?
If grass has 1,000 units of energy how many units are passed to the cow that eats it?
What is 100 units?
What type of organism would not usually be included in the food chain?
What is a decomposer?
What is the smallest unit of matter?
Atom
Highest grossing movie of all time?
Avatar
Which type of organism consumes dead organic material and is often also a scavenger?
What is a detrivore?
If only 10% of energy is passed from one trophic level to the next what form of energy is it lost as?
What is heat/thermal energy?
What is the domino effect called that happens when a change at the top of the food chain affects the lower levels?
What is a trophic cascade?
What primarily causes the Earth's seasons?
23.5 degree tilt
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, what is the name of the fictional metal that makes up Captain America’s shield and is found in Wakanda?
Vibranium
Which trophic level usually has the highest/most biomass?
What are the producers?
What is the term for an animal that is on the 4th level of the food chain?
What is a tertiary consumer?
Name two common decomposers.
Mushrooms/fungi, millipede, earthworm, snail, slug, bacteria
What is the name of the process when water vapor becomes liquid?
Condensation
What year was tik tok released internationally?
2017
Which organism is the most important for maintaining the cycle of matter in an ecosystem?
What is a decomposer?
What is the 1st Law of Themodynamics?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed; only transformed
What is the variety and number of species in an ecosystem often called?
What is biodiversity?
Which layer of the atmosphere holds the ozone layer?
Stratosphere
Best selling book of all time?
The Bible