Vocabulary
An organism that consumes other organisms.
What is a consumer?
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthese.
What are producers?
The series of processes by which nitrogen and its compounds are interconverted in the environment and in living organisms, including nitrogen fixation and decomposition is known as the ________ ________.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
What is the percentage of energy that moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 10%?
A plant would be considered a ________ factor.
What is biotic?
Temperature, light, air, water, soil, and climate are all __________ parts of the environment.
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
The process where liquid water transforms into water vapor (a gas), typically driven by heat from the sun
What is evaporation?
The trophic level that contains the greatest amount of energy.
What is producers?
Name a form of precipitation.
What is rain/sleet/hail/snow?
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is the ecosystem?
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
Includes all of the living and non-living things in an area
What is an ecosystem?
Producers have 1,000 KJ of energy available to them from the sun. Primary consumers have ________ KJ available to them.
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
Make a food chain using the following organisms: frog, hawk, snake, grass, grasshopper.
A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is species?
What is the sun?
Most of our nitrogen is found in __________.
What is the atmosphere?
Populations that share their environment and interact with populations of other species.
What is a community?
A reasonable explanation for what happens to most of the energy that is NOT used in a trophic pyramid.
What is energy released into the ecosystem as heat?
These organisms produce energy through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis, also known as producers.
What is autotroph?
The producer level of a trophic pyramid contains 560,053 KJ of energy. The tertiary consumer will have ___________ KJ.
What is 560 KJ?
Study of the interactions of living things and their environment.
What is ecology?