Biomes
What is a plant adaptation for grasslands/savannah?
Used to being overgrazed, deep and long roots
3 differences between primary and secondary succesion?
Secondary needs a catastrophic event, primary takes 1,000s of years and primary starts from scratch.
What is the difference between a community and an ecosystem?
Community is multiple different populations and ecosystems is communities plus nonliving parts of the environment.
What is ecology?
Ecology is the study of the relationship between biotic and abiotic factors
How much energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next?
10%
What is a animal adaptation?
Large feet, migration, etc
What are the pioneer species in primary succession?
Lichen and mosses
What is a biome?
A biome is all the bigger environments with the same climate, organisms and vegetation. An example of a biome would be all the rainforests in the world.
What is the difference between heterotrophs and autotrophs?
Heterotrophs are organisms that eat other organisms to obtain their energy and autotrophs make their own energy.
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
Food chains show a direct energy transfer from a single producer to a single tertiary consumer in an ecosystem and a food web shows most energy relationships in an ecosystem.
What is plant adaptation for freshwater?
Hollow roots, hiding in plants,
What would be the pioneer species be in secondary succession?
Grasses and small plants or weeds
What are the levels of organization in ecology from simplest to most complex?
Cell, Tissues, Organs, Organ system, organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere
What is biodiversity?
Biodiversity is the variety of organisms in an environment in an ecosystem,biome or the whole world. It is important because the more variety the better chance of survival and succession for the environment.
What to the arrows on a food chain/web represent?
They represent the flow or the transfer of energy.
What is one animal adaptation for freshwater?
Having gills, camouflaging, etc
List the order in which things grow in secondary succession?
Grasses and weeds, shrubs, small trees, and big trees.
What is the organization that is the communities interactions with their environment?
Ecosystem
What is photosynthesis? Where does photosynthesis happen? (think in the cell)
Photosynthesis is the process of plants transferring light energy into chemical energy. Photosynethesis happens in the Chloroplasts.
What are each of the trophic levels?
Producer, Primary consumer, secondary consumer, and tertiary consumer
Give one plant and animal adaptation for the rainforest?
Plants with large and waxy leaves also plants with drip tips.
Some animals have poison like certain frogs, animals can be nocturnal, and camouflage.
What does Lichen do? What does moss do?
Moss and Lichen grow on rocks in order to start primary succession and they help break down the rock (erosion)
What is the difference between a community and a population?
Populations are the members of one community and community would be all the populations living in one area.
What are the reactants in Photosynthesis? What are the products?
The reactants are water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight. The products are glucose/sugar and oxygen.
What is an energy pyramid?
A pyramid that goes from producers all the way to tertiary consumers that shows the transfer of energy.