Trophic Levels and Energy Transfer
The thing that consumes producers
What is primary consumer?
What is an invasive species?
When both benefit from the relaionship
What is mutualism?
When toxins become more concentrated
What is biomagnification?
Process of converting atmospheric nitrogen gas into reactive forms like ammonia, nitrates, or nitrites
What is nitrogen fixation?
The third level of the energy pyramid
Species that suffer from invasive species
What is native species?
When one benefits and one is harmed
What is parasitism?
How toxins become more concentrated
The process by which living organisms incorporate nutrients from their environment into their own bodies
What is assimilation?
Make their own energy
What are producers/autotrophs?
Most affected by invasive species
What are prey?
When one benefits and one is unaffected
What is commensalism?
Where toxins can and have gotten into.
What is air, soil, and water?
A two-step biological process where bacteria convert ammonia into nitrite and then into nitrate
What is nitrification?
Interconnecting food chains in an ecosystem that represent how energy and nutrients flow through the community
What is a food web?
The amount of the food web that is usually affected by invasive species
What is all?
How DDT affected bigger organisms
What is negatively affecting reproductive abilities?
A biological process where certain bacteria convert nitrate into gaseous forms like nitrogen oxides
What is denitrification?
The amount of energy passed after consumption
What is 10%?
What the invasive species usually becomes
What is an apex predator?
Behaviours displayed by an individual to attract and eventually reproduce with a mate
What is courtship?
What is killing crop destroying insects?
How nitrogen moves between the atmosphere, soil, plants, and animals, and back again
What is the nitrogen cycle?