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Vocabulary
Energy
Water Cycle
Symbiotic relationships
Levels of organization
100
An organism that makes it's own food (2 names)
What is producer or autotroph?
100
What the arrow show in a food web
What is the flow of energy?
100
When water leaves through plants
What is transpiration?
100
a leech sucking blood from your leg
What is parasitism?
100
Define biosphere
What is all of the combined portions of Earth (water, land and air)?
200
This organism is directly dependent (eats) on plants/autotrophs
What is primary consumer?
200
the percent of energy lost at each trophic level
What is 90%?
200
What is uptake
What is plants taking in water through their roots?
200
Bacteria gaining energy by turning N2 gas into nitrates and nitrites for living things
What is mutualism?
200
Give an example of a population found in an ecosystem
What is a population of flying squirrels living in an ecosystem?
300
Define omnivore, herbivore and carnivore
What is omnivore eats plants and animals; herbivore-plants; carnivore-meat
300
the 90% energy lost at each trophic level goes where
What is released as heat?
300
What is rainfall, snowfall, hail, etc called
What is precipitation?
300
An elephant that is not affected by a bird riding on its back
What is commensalism?
300
What is the difference between community and population
What is community-all populations living in an area; population-one species living in an area?
400
Define an ecosystem
What is all organism living in a particular place with their non-living environment?
400
Who gets the most energy in a food web and why
What is producer and because it gets its energy directly from the sun?
400
Name the two ways water travels into the air
What is evaporation and transpiration?
400
Give an example of parasitism and mutualism
What is ...?
400
A group of organisms with similar traits that produce fertile offspring
What is species?
500
What is the difference between evaporation and condensation?
What is evaporation= liquid to gas ; condensation= gas to liquid
500
What are two examples of decomposers and how do decomposers get energy
What is fungi and bacteria; breaking down dead organic material?
500
Name the six basic steps of the water cycle
What is evaporation-condensation-precipitation-runoff-seepage-uptake?
500
Describe the three types of symbiosis
What is mutualism= both benefit ; commensalism= one benefits, the other is not helped or harmed ; parasitism= one benefits, the other is harmed?
500
List the levels of organization of ecology starting with biosphere
What is biosphere-biome-ecosystem-community-population-species-individual organism?