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Cycles & Processes
Ecosystems
Energy
Populations & Boundaries
Grab Bag
100
The process in which plants convert carbon dioxide to oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
100
An area where living and non-living things interact.
What is an ecosystem?
100
Where all of the energy comes from, whether directly or indirectly.
What is the sun?
100
The number of one species in a specific area.
What is a population?
100
When humans eat fruits and vegetables, they are being this.
What is primary consumer?
200
The process in which animals convert oxygen into carbon dioxide.
What is respiration?
200
The living things in an ecosystem (bees, trees, etc).
What is biotic?
200
An organism that makes its own food using the sun's energy.
What is a producer?
200
The amount of food, amount of space, and number of predators are all examples of these.
What are limiting factors?
200
These are five problems that are threatening biodiversity.
What is Habitat Loss, Introduced Species, Pollution, Population Growth, and Over Consumption?
300
These two substances are constantly being cycled throughout nature by plants and animals.
What is oxygen and carbon dioxide?
300
The non-living things in an ecosystem (rocks, sun, water).
What is abiotic?
300
An organism that breaks down dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
300
This happens to a species if its predators disappear.
What is over populate? (Or expand, increase, etc)
300
A diagram that shows that flow of energy through an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
400
In every ecosystem, this is cycled over and over again through producers, consumers, and decomposers.
What is energy?
400
Different ecosystems with similar climates and organisms.
What is a biome?
400
This is an example of when an organism in a food web is on multiple energy levels depending on what chain is followed.
What is _________? (Give correct example)
400
The maximum members of a species that a certain area can support.
What is carrying capacity?
400
A species that keeps its ecosystem in balance.
What is a keystone species?
500
The process in which energy and matter is returned to the soil and water.
What is decomposition?
500
The number of species in an area.
What is biodiversity?
500
The energy level of a shark that had eaten a fish that had eaten a fly that had eaten some algae.
What is a tertiary consumer?
500
Different populations together in an area.
What is a community?
500
A species specific role in its habitat.
What is a niche?