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Vocabulary
Food Webs
Trophic Levels
Classification
Misc.
100
Consumers.
What are organisms that get solar or other energy indirectly from the sun?
100
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthsis.
What are Plants?
100
The organism that eats the primary producer
What is a primary consumer?
100
The 6 major categories in which organisms are classified.
What are the six kingdoms:Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Eubacteria, Archaebacteria?
100
Group of related orders.
What is a class?
200
Food Web
What term is used to refer to the many feeding relationships that are possible in an ecosystem?
200
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
200
Each level in a food pyramid
What is a trophic level?
200
Grouping objects or information based on similarities.
What is classification?
200
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
300
The main source of energy in most ecosystems.
What is the sun?
300
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
300
This matter and amount of energy is always lost as urine, feces and heat energy.
What is 10% or the rule of 10?
300
Naming system that gives each organism a two word name.
What is binomial nomenclature?
300
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
400
An organism that breaks down wases and dad organisms.
What is a decomposer?
400
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?
400
Means eaten by and flow of matter and energy.
What is the arrow's direction? or To what the arrow is pointing?
400
Designed a system of classifying organisms based on their physical and structural similarities.
Who is Caroleus Linnaeus?
400
Group of related phyla.
What is a kingdom?
500
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
500
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 90%?
500
The four major levels of the energy pyramid in order.
What are primary producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, and tertiary consumer?
500
Developed the first system of classification.
Who is Aristotle?
500
A branch of biology that studies how to group and name living things.
What is Taxonomy?