Lvls of Org
Examples include desert, rainforest, and tundra.
What is a biome?
This type of organism is found first on a food chain
What is producer/autotroph?
The amount (%) of energy transferred from one level to the next
10%
How plants take carbon out of the atmosphere
absorb CO2 for photosynthesis
Yeast can do aerobic respiration in the presence of oxygen within this organelle
What is mitochondrion?
All organisms of one species living in a defined area
What is population?
This describes what a predator eats
What is prey?
Energy not captured by the next level often goes here
released into the atmosphere as heat
Describes humans using petroleum and natural gas
burning fossil fuels
Bromothymol blue will turn this color in the presence of lots of CO2
What is yellow?
The difference between communities and ecosystems
What is the ecosystem includes abiotic factors in addition to biotic factors?
This is type of organism increases in population size when primary consumers are removed from an ecosystem
What is producers?
Possible unit of energy
What is kcal/joule?
the effect of excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
Global warming/Global Climate Change
why plants are green
What is green light reflects off the pigment, chlorophyll?
The definition of biosphere
What is the part of the earth surface with living things on it?
This type of organism is typically missing from food chains and webs
What are decomposers?
In the food chain, algae -> krill -> penguin, this organism gets energy from the sun.
What is algae
The process where humans cut down trees
What is deforestation?
the reactants of one reaction are the products of another
What is biochemical pathway?
The levels of organization in order from individual to biosphere.
Individual, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biome
Both food chains and food webs do not describe the individual organism, but instead the ______________.
What is population?
The energy pyramid shape is also used to describe this; the amount of living matter in that level
what is biomass?
The molecule with nitrogen in it that is fixed by bacteria in the soil and is then usable by plants
What is Nitrate?
The molecule reduced to sugar in photosynthesis
What is carbon dioxide?