Food Webs
Another word for "compartments"
Anything that takes up space and has mass is defined as ______
Matter
The energy possessed by moving objects is _____ energy.
kinetic
What is a population?
Members of the SAME species living together at the SAME time and SAME place
The water cycle mainly relies on the ____.
Sun
Car engines are an example of ____ systems
Open
What 3 states does matter exist in?
Solid, liquid, gas
What do nearly all organisms rely on for energy?
The sun!
An ecosystem consists of both ____ and ____ factors.
Biotic (living) and abiotic (non-living)
The process by which plants take in carbon dioxide and release it into the atmosphere as oxygen.
Photosynthesis
What term describes the flow of energy and matter into, through, and out of a system?
throughput
Matter cannot be ____ nor _____
Created nor destroyed
Photosynthesis converts _____ energy to chemical energy.
solar
What are the recyclers in an ecoystem?
Scavenger, parasites, and decomposers
Name a human activity that influences the carbon cycle (the amount of carbon in the atmosphere).
Deforestation; burning of fossil fuels
When the inputs of a system equal the output of a system, the system has reached _______
equilibrium
Matter _____ through a system, whereas energy flows through a system.
Recycles
Another word for disorder or randomness of energy
Entropy
A ____ level is an organism's feeding status in an ecosystem.
trophic
____ refers to the excess growth of algae, which is due to an excess of nutrients.
Eutrophication
A process in which the output of a system affects the system itself, either increasing (positive) or decreasing (negative) an initial change
Feedback loop
What quality does the number of protons + the number of neutrons determine?
Atomic mass
How much energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next?
10%
What 2 elements mainly contribute to eutrophication?
Nitrogen and Phosphorus