Producers and Consumers
Consumers whose diets naturally include a variety of different foods that include both plants and animals
What are omnivores?
Give an example of a biological process.
Eating, breathing, burning food, breathing, etc.
All metabolic processes
Assemblage of different populations that live together in a defined area
What is community?
A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten
What is a food chain?
Precipitation that is absorbed into soil
What is groundwater?
Consumer that kills and eats other animals.
What are carnivores?
Give an example of a geological process.
volcanic eruptions, formation and breakdown of rock, major movements of matter within and below the surface of the Earth, etc.
Group of ecosystems that share similar climates and organisms
What is biome?
A network of complex interactions formed by the feeding relationships among the various organisms in an ecosystem
What is a food web?
Precipitation that flows along the surface of Earth
What is runoff?
Consumers that feed on detritus particles. They chew and grind detritus into smaller pieces.
What are detritivores?
Give an example of a chemical/physical process.
Formation of clouds and precipitation, flow of running water, action of lightning, etc.
Groups of individuals of the same species that live in the same area
What is population?
Each step in a food chain or a food web
What is a trophic level?
Process in which chemical energy is used to produce carbohydrates
What is chemosynthesis?
Organisms that are able to capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce their own food.
What are autotrophs/primary producers?
Give an example of a human activity that affects cycles of matter.
Mining and burning of fossil fuels, clearing of land for building and farming, burning of forests, manufacturing and use of fertilizers, etc.
All the organisms that live in a place, together with their nonliving/physical environment
What is ecosystem?
Primary producers that are a mixture of floating algae and small organisms, can perform photosynthesis, found on the surface of water
What is phytoplankton?
The flow of energy through an energy pyramid can be referred to as this; energy is lost as it moves up an energy pyramid
What is the 10% rule?
Consumers that “feed” by chemically breaking down organic matter
What are decomposers?
The chemical substances that an organism needs to sustain life
What are nutrients?
Group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring
What are species?
Krill are an example of this; small, free-swimming animals; diverse group
What is zooplankton?
The 2 products of photosynthesis (2 answers)
Carbohydrates (sugar, glucose, starch) and Oxygen