Ecosystem Players
The ability of an ecosystem to maintain a stable balance.
What is Homeostasis?
An organism that eats both plants and animal
What is an omnivore?
approximately this much energy moves to the next trophic level.
What is 10%
The process plants use to make their own food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide.
What is Photosynthesis?
A nonliving environmental factor, such as temperature or water.
What is abiotic?
Organisms that get energy by consuming other organisms.
What is a consumer?
A diagram showing feeding relationships among many organisms
What is a food chain?
Type of energy used during Photosynthesis to break apart and rearrange CO2, O2, & H2O?
What is solar energy?
A living environmental factor that can affect an ecosystem.
What is biotic?
An organism that breaks down and consumes dead organic matter.
What is a decomposer?
The feeding position an organism occupies in an ecosystem.
What is tophic level?
Plants take in this gas from the air during photosynthesis for sugar.
What is CO2?
The maximum population size an environment can support.
What is Carrying Capacity?
An organism that gets its energy by eating meat
What is a carnivore?
A chain reaction in an ecosystem where a change in one species causes effects on many other species at different trophic levels.
What is a Trophic Cascade?
This gas is released by plants as a product of photosynthesis.
What is O2?
A species that can strongly affect many other species in an ecosystem, both directly and indirectly.
What is keystone species?
Organisms that eat producers are called this.
What are herbivores?
When one species changes another species without directly interacting with it, such as the loss of otters affecting kelp growth by changing urchin behavior.
What is indirect effects?
Organisms that make their own food.
What is a producer or autotroph?