Vocabulary
An individual living thing/species
What is an organism?
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis. Also known as autotrophs.
What are primary producers?
A diagram that shows the amount of _________ that moves from one trophic level to another.
What is a energy?
Which part of the water cycle involves water turning from a liquid into a gas?
What is evaporation.
Rocks, water, disease, sunlight are what type of factors.
What is abiotic factors?
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
The arrows in a food web represent what two things?
What is who eats who and where the energy is going?
What is the third level of an energy pyramid? They tend to be omnivores.
What is the secondary consumers?
The phase in the water cycle where water can fall as a solid or a liquid.
What is a precipitation.
The difference between how a producer and consumer get energy.
What is producers make their own food and consumers have to hunt, gather, and search for their food?
An organism that breaks down dead and decaying organic material and recycles it back into the ecosystem to be used again.
What is decomposer?
Food chains are a ____________ model of how energy moves throughout an ecosystem, where a ____________ is a more complex model of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
What is simple and food web?
What would be an example of a primary consumer in a forest ecosystem?
What is a grasshopper, mouse, rabbit, bee, bunny, etc.
At what stage of the water cycle is water becoming more dense and cooler?
What is condensation.
75 guinea pigs is an example of what level of organization?
What is a population?
The process in which dead animals and plants get buried under the earth and under special circumstances turn into a source of energy.
What is a fossilization?
A food web shows how matter and _______________ move throughout an ecosystem.
What is energy?
Place these organisms in order from the most amount of energy to the least amount of energy: snake, mouse, grass, hawk.
What is grass, mouse, snake, hawk.
The process in which plants release water vapor through the stomata.
What is transpiration.
The element that is the building block of all living things. It is also a cycle we learned about.
What is carbon?
An environmental event/action that that causes a population to decrease.
What is a limiting factor?
In a forest food web, what would happen to the rabbit population if the squirrel population decreased?
What is the population would decrease because the hawks would lose the food resource of squirrels?
The 10 percent rule.
As you move up the energy, only 10% of the energy at the previous level is available at the next level.
What is ground water recharge.
BONUS
What is every team gets 100 points.