VOCABULARY
The change of state from a gas to a liquid
What is condensation
What is the difference between a producer and a consumer
A producer makes its own food and a consumer must eat
This is a feeding level in an ecosystem.
What is a trophic level
BEGINS IN A PLACE WITHOUT ANY SOIL (bare rock)
What is PRIMARY SUCCESSION
ONLY EATS PLANTS
What is HERBIVORES
organisms that make their own food
What are autotrophs (producers)
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web
A food chain is a simple, linear sequence of organisms where one organism eats another, representing a single pathway of energy transfer, while a food web is a complex network of interconnected food chains
living factors in an ecosystem
What is a biotic factor
A series of predictable and orderly changes within an ecosystem over time.
What is ecological succession
this diagram show the amounts of energy at each trophic level
What is an ecological pyramid
What is the difference between primary and secondary consumers
Primary consumers are organisms that eat plants (producers), while secondary consumers are organisms that eat primary consumers
What is the water (hydrologic) cycle
Begins in a place that already has soil and was once the home of living organisms
What is secondary succession
The change of state from a liquid to a gas
What is evaporation
Compare and contrast producers and decomposers
Producers are organisms that create their own food using sunlight through photosynthesis, while decomposers break down dead organisms into simpler nutrients that can be used by other organisms in the ecosystem
What is an example of an abiotic factor that almost all life on Earth depends
the sun
what is the end result of the succession process
What is climax community
What kind of consumer occupys the 1st tropic level and only eats plants.
Primary consumers
This is the continuous process where carbon atoms move between the Earth's atmosphere, oceans, living organisms, and soil
What is the carbon cycle
Compare and contrast cycles of matter and ecological succession
Cycles of matter focus on the movement of elements like carbon, nitrogen, and water through the environment, constantly being recycled between living organisms and their surroundings, whereas ecological succession describes the gradual change in the composition of a community of organisms over time,
The transfer of nitrogen from the atmosphere to the soil, to living organisms, and back to the atmosphere
What is the nitrogen cycle
What are the two pioneer species that we learned about in class
lichens and mosses
What kind of consumers eat secondary consumers
What are tertiary consumers