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What are the four ways to define life?
Has cells
Uses energy
Grows and develops
Reproduces
What is inside the plant that is green
Chlorophyll
What is Predation?
One species consumes the other for energy
All living things are what?
Biotic
What are the four macromolecules.
Carbohydrates
Proteins
Lipids
nucleic acids
What macromolecule comes only from plants?
Carbohydrate
What is mutualism?
mutualism is both species benefit.
Non-living things are?
Abiotic
The four consumers are
Carnivore
Omnivore
Decomposers
Herbivores
Plants change light energy into what energy?
Chemical
Grazing is...
The species feed off of plants
What is a trophic level?
Each step in the food chain.
What are the items recycled in the atmosphere
Water
Carbon
Nitrogen
Phosphorus
What is photosynthesis?
The process that converts solar energy into chemical energy
Commensalism
One benefits and the other is indifferent.
What's the main function of a decomposer
To recycle nutrients
Four steps of the nitrogen cycle
Nitrogen fixation
Taken up by plants and assimilated into proteins
Animal eats the plant and the nitrogen becomes the animals protein
Animal dies and decomposes
CO2 and H2O combine with solar energy to create what?
Glucose and Oxygen
Parasitism is...
One benefits and the other is harmed.
What percent of energy do tertiary consumers have?
.1%