Vocabulary
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.
What are Plants?
A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms.
What is a biome?
The part of the Carbon Cycle that is found deep in the Earth and is a limited resource.
What are fossil fuels?
The organism that a lives in or on another organism.
What is a parasite?
The community of organisms that live in a particular area. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
The biome you would be in if you were standing on a bitterly cold, dry plain with only a few, short plants scattered around.
What is the tundra?
These TWO types of macromolecule are reliant on Nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the soil,
What are Proteins and Nucleic Acids?
A stable mature community in which there is little change in the number of species.
What is climax community?
This kind of succession is when plant life grows in an area where it hasn't grown before.
What is primary succession?
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
This is how water gets back into the atmosphere from the oceans.
What is Evaporation?
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?
Biosphere
The atmosphere is NOT involved in this nutrient cycle.
What is the Phosphorus cycle?
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
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%?
Factors such as temperature, soil, rocks and humidity are examples of:
Abiotic factors
Human activity such as factories, cars and power plants are increasing this nutrient cycle.
What is the carbon cycle?