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Ecology
Producers and Consumers
Energy in Ecosystems
Matter Cycles
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The study of the interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment
What is Ecology?
100
An organism that makes its own food, also called an autotroph
What is producer?
100
A single possible route for energy (food) through an ecosystem
What is food chain?
100
Processes in which elements, chemicals, and matter are passed to different parts of the biosphere
What is biogeochemical cycles?
100
The painter responsible for the interior of the Sistine Chapel
Who is Michelangelo?
200
A group of different populations that live in one area
What is community?
200
An organism that gets food by eating other organisms, also called a heterotroph
What is consumer?
200
A "map" of all the possible routes for energy through an ecosystem
What is food web?
200
Process of converting nitrogen gas into nitrogen compounds
What is Nitrogen Fixation?
200
The planet in our solar system with the most moons
What is Jupiter (63)?
300
All the organisms and all the abiotic factors that live in one place
What is ecosystem?
300
Type of consumer that eats both plants and animals. Example: bear
What is omnivore?
300
A picture showing the amount of energy and matter at each trophic level in a food chain or food web
What is ecological pyramid?
300
Process by which some bacteria take nitrogen out of compounds and produce Nitrogen gas
What is denitrification?
300
The top possible score in a string of bowling
What is 300?
400
A group of ecosystems with similar climates and similar organisms
What is biome?
400
Type of consumer that eats dead or dying animals
What is scavenger?
400
Name one of the two ways energy is lost as it moves through an ecosystem
What is heat and the energy for an organism to live?
400
The physical/chemical cause of Nitrogen Fixation in the Nitrogen Cycle
What is Lightning?
400
The next year that will be a palindrome
What is 2112?
500
The name for where all life exists on Earth
What is biosphere?
500
Type of consumer that eats the waste from decomposers
What is detrivore?
500
The term for the amount of living tissue at a trophic level
What is biomass?
500
What is the difference between the flow of energy through an ecosystem and the flow of matter
Energy is one way, matter flows in cycles
500
The capital city of New Hampshire
What is Concord?