Carbon Cycle
How does carbon get cycled back into the Earth
what is decomposers
What begins the water cycle
the sun
The organisms that eat the secondary consumers are called
tertiary consumers
what is a heterotroph
an organism that gets its organic nutrients by feeding on autotrophs or other heterotrophs.
Biomass is....
amount of living or organic matter present in an organism
How does Carbon Dioxide cycle back and forth between plants and animals
animals breathe out carbon dioxide and plants take in carbon dioxide
If enough water condenses into the cloud then....
The cloud starts to precipitate back down into the Earth
Producers are also called
autotrophs
what are saprotrophs
heterotrophs that obtain organic nutrients from detritus by external digestion.
How do energy pyramids begin
with producers
Carbon thats been in the soil for millions of years turns into.....
when rain or snow is taken to underground reservoirs it is called...
Infiltration
If you increase or decrease an organism in a food web then the entire food web will
start to get out of control
What is interbreeding
when two members of the same species mate and produce offspring
What does an energy pyramid show
the relationship between biomass and trophic level by quantifying the biomass present at each trophic level of an ecological community at a particular time.
When Carbon gets trapped in the atmosphere what happens....
Temperature increases/heats up
Does the cycle repeat
yes!
the way food passes to one organism to the next is called a
food chain
what is crossbreeding
when members of different species breed together.
What is the 10% rule
at each step up in trophic level, the biomass is 10% of the trophic level below it.
True Or False
Is water great at dissolving carbon dioxide
True
What is sumblimation?
Sublimation is the transition of a substance directly from the solid to the gas state, without passing through the liquid state
break organism down
What is inorganic nutrients
chemical elements, compounds, and other substances necessary to sustain life processes that are not chemically carbon-based
If a producer had 15,200 Kg what would the primary consumer energy level be