Energy Flow
It is an organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer (autotroph)?
It is a relationship in which both species involved benefit.
What is mutualism?
Individual living things
What is organism?
These resources cannot be replenished.
What is nonrenewable?
Living
What is biotic?
A treeless biome found in the polar climate zone.
What is tundra?
All the organisms of the same species.
What is a population?
This is the process of water forming clouds.
What is condensation?
List 3 characteristics of a living organism
What is a reproduction, use energy, waste, growth/development, homeostasis, adaptation/adjustment, made of cells.
It is a primary consumer, it only eats producers.
What is an herbivore?
It is a relationship in which one of the species involved benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
It is the smallest unit of life
What is cell?
The process of reclaiming and reusing raw materials
What is recycling?
Nonliving
What is abiotic?
A dry biome with few trees found in the interior of North America.
What is grassland?
Organisms that make their own food are referred to as
What is an autotroph or producer?
This is one possible way of getting carbon into the atmosphere.
What are combustion, respiration, or fossil fuels?
What is the largest level of organization?
What is bioshpere
It is a secondary or tertiary consumer, it eats only other animals.
What is a carnivore?
It is a relationship in which one species benefits while harming the other species.
What is parasitism?
It is a group of organisms of one type in an area
What is the population?
The process of turning organic waste into fertilizer.
What is composting?
Grass, trees, insects are all examples of
What is biotic?
The biome found in the northwest that receives abundant rainfall and contains mostly conifers.
What is the temperate rain forest?
Multiple species living together in one area
What is a community?
The process when water vapor turns to snow.
What is condensation
_________ can not be create or destroyed.
What is energy?
They can be found on any trophic level, they eat both producers and consumers.
What is an omnivore?
Mistletoe living on a spruce tree and using it for its food supply is..
What is parasitism?
If two organisms are in competition for the same resource what will eventually happen?
One population will die off OR both population sizes will decrease in order to coexist
The long-term rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system
What is global warming/climate change?
Oxygen and Sunlight are examples of
What is abiotic?
A very dry biome found on the continental side of mountains which block precipitation.
What is a desert?
The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
What is natural selection?
Water leaving plants and returning to the atmosphere is called
What is transpiration?
Biome
What is a large naturally occurring community occupying a major habitat
They receive the least amount of energy in a food chain.
What is a decomposer?
An example is a butterfly feeding on the nectar from a flower while pollinating the flower.
What is mutualism?
This is all the populations together in an ecosystem
What is community?
Carbon dioxide, methane, and water are three of these.
What are greenhouse gases
Bacteria and Fungi are examples of
What are biotic factors?
The biome that is made up of conifers that receives most of its precipitation in the form of snow.
What is the taiga?
Any organism that gets nutrition from outside.
What is a heterotroph?
It is the only biochemical cycle that does not cycle through the atmosphere but only cycles through water, soil, and rocks..
What is the phosphorus cycle
A volcano erupts and destroys the surrounding area, what succession follows?
What is the primary succession?
It is the percent of energy that gets lost at each trophic level.
What is 90%?
A barnacle live on a whale in order to cover more ocean and get more food and the whale doesn't even notice is an example of this type of symbiosis.
What is commensalism?
The definition of Ecology
What is the study of interactions among organisms and their environment
A resource that cannot be replenished.
What is a non-renewable resource?
List three biotic and three abiotic factors
Biotic- grass, animals, tress, insects, bacteria
Abiotic- rock, sun, air, temperature
A biome made up of mostly broad leaf trees that lose their leaves in preparation for the winter.
What is a temperate deciduous forest?
The classification of organisms into groups.
What is taxonomy?
List two characteristics of secondary succession
Grass is the pioneer species, has soil in the beginning, takes a shorter time to reach climax community
The difference between a food web and food chain
What are interrelationships between organisms: (also biodiversity amongst food choices in a food web)