Levels of Organization
A flock of birds in a park
What is population?
The ultimate source of all energy on Earth
What is the Sun?
What is biotic factor?
A geographical area that is characterized by its weather patterns, climate, soil type, and the types of species that can survive there.
What is a biome?
The three states of matter
What is solid, liquid, and gas?
A shark, school of fish, coral reef, water, sand, and sunlight.
What is an ecosystem?
This amount of energy is transferred between trophic levels
What is 10 percent?
The non-living components in an ecosystem
What is abiotic factors?
This biome is located on the poles of the globe, includes permafrost and extremely cold temperatures.
What is tundra (or Arctic)?
This part of the flower creates and stores pollen
What is the anther?
A shark, school of fish, a coral reef, and starfish
What is a community?
Organism that breaks down dead or decaying organism in order to return nutrients back to the environment.
What is a decomposer?
Temperature, rocks, soil, clouds, and rain are all examples of this
What are abiotic factors?
Organism that makes its own food through photosynthesis
What is a producer?
The process of taking in glucose and oxygen in order to produce energy (ATP)
What is cellular respiration?
The highest level of organization, includes all biomes on Earth.
What is biosphere?
The organism that eats the producer
What is the primary consumer?
A branch that has fallen off a tree is an example of this
What is a biotic factor?
A step in a food chain/food web; hierarchical levels in an ecosystem
What is a trophic level?
Energy of motion
What is kinetic energy?
The levels of biological organization (from smallest to largest).
What is organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere?
The arrows in a food web represent this
What is the flow of energy?
In order for something to be considered living, it must have all these signs
What is growth, contains DNA, made up of cells, respond to stimuli, reproduce, and require energy?
North Carolina is in this biome
What is temperate forest?
The layers of Earth (outermost to innermost)
What is the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?