Vocabulary
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthese.
What are Plants?
What is the molecule carbon is part of in both the processes of cellular respiration and photosynthesis?
What is carbon dioxide/ CO2?
A venus fly trap holds two roles in a food web. What are they?
1. Producer
2. Primary Consumer
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
The step of the water cycle where plants release water vapor into the atmosphere via open stomata in the leaves.
What is Transpiration?
Give an example of a relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
Bird and tree, bee and flower, etc.
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
The exhaust from a car, the burning of coal in a furnace are both examples of adding CO2 to the atmosphere from this method.
The burning of fossil fuels.
Give an example of two organisms in different species that can reproduce with one another.
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?
This is the atmospheric form of Nitrogen.
What is N2?
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%?
What single celled organisms "fix" Nitrogen for use in plants and other organisms?
What is bacteria?
A group of organiss that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is a species?