Show:
General
Energy Flows in Ecosystems
Food Webs and Chains and other models of the sort and other little tidbits
This segment contains answers to various questions about Nutrient Cycles in Ecosystems!
Double Points!
100
Total mass of living plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria in a given area
What is Biomass?
100
These make food in the form of carbohydrates during photosynthesis. (2 possible answers)
What are plants? /What are producers?
100
Models that show the flow of energy from plant to animal and from animal to animal
What are food chains?
100
Chemicals that are required for plant and animal growth
What are nutrients?
100
The removal by water of substances that have dissolved in damp soil
What is leaching?
200
The flow of energy from an ecosystem and from one organism to another
What is energy flow?
200
The breaking down of organic wastes and dead organisms.
What is decomposition?
200
Trophic level is this component of the food chain.
What is each step in the food chain called?
200
Those are the nutrient cycles!
What are the carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycles?
200
The planting of soybeans, peas, alfalfa, and rice help fix this.
What plants help to fix atmospheric nitrogen?
300
Animals' special roles
What is niche?
300
The action of living organisms to break down dead organic matter
What is brodegradation?
300
Plants and phytoplankton are on this level of the food chain.
What resides in the first trophic level in the food chain?
300
The combination of carbon and oxygen that is dissolved in ocean water
What is Carbonate?
300
Those are the 5 chemical elements that limit the amountand types of life possible in an exosystem.
What are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus?
400
The spotted frog lies in this trophic level.
What is secondary consumers/What lies in the third trophic level?
400
Different models to help understand how energy flows or is lost in an ecosystem (3 items)
What are food chains, food webs, and food pyramids examples of?
400
Snakes and hobo spiders are examples of what? (the answer is NOT common phobias)
What are examples of carnivores?
400
Denitrification does this.
What returns nitrogen to the atmosphere?
400
The atmosphere is mainly made up of this chemical, in this percentage.
What is 78% nitrogen?
500
The biomass of plants is ____ times the biomass of animals.
What is 100 times the biomass of animals?
500
Anthrobacter is an example of what?
What is an example of a decomposer bacteria?
500
30 kilojoules of energy of the 100 kJ a mouse consumes is lost as this.
How much thermal energy is lost to the environment?
500
These animals are used in order to reduce the impact of humans in Asia.
What are ducks used for?
500
Tertiary consumers only get ____ percent of the energy produced from producers.
What is .1%?