Vocabulary
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a Habitat?
These organisms produce energy through the use of Photosynthesis
What are producer/autotroph/plants?
Eat Animals
Carnivore
TRUE/FALSE
True
Who would you like to steal points from?
Good luck
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their non-living surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
Each step in a Energy Pyramid is called what?
Trophic level
Eat plants
Herbivore
Breaking down food and making energy (hint hint: we follow this)
Respiration
Forest fire, hurricane, and earthquakes are examples that will cause what type of succession
Secondary Succession
are groups of organisms of the same species
Population
If I have 2,000 kcal in my Producer level, how much energy will be remaining by the Secondary Consumer level?
20 kcal
Eats both plants and animals?
Omnivore
What is the name of the organism that can change Nitrogen.
Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria
Why does Primary Succession take so long to occur?
It has to create the Soil
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
What is a Decomposer?
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
What is an Energy Pyramid
Get energy from the sun
When rain weathers away at rocks what Mineral is released?
Phosphorous
Old-field succession is an example of which kind of succession?
Secondary Succession
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a Food Chain?
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 90%?
Gets energy from other organisms?
What is a Consumer?
Too much Phosphorous and Too much Nitrogen in the ocean will lead to what outcome (term)?
Eutrophication
Deforestation in an ecosystem would lead to _____________ succession
Secondary