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Parts of an Ecosystem
Energy Flow
Nutrient Cycling
Limiting Factors
Human Impact
100
The term to refer to the non-living part of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
100
The name of organisms like plants that form the base of food chains.
What are producers?
100
The name of organisms that get their food by consuming waste and dead organisms.
What are decomposers?
100
Any organism that exists by hunting other organisms.
What are predators?
100
Precipitation that has been made more acidic than normal by combining certain chemicals in the air with water vapour.
What is acid precipitation (rain)?
200
The term that refers to the living part of an ecosystem.
What is biotic?
200
The process by which plants capture the sun's energy and turn it into glucose (food).
What is photosynthesis?
200
The series of processes that moves water through the environment.
What is the water cycle?
200

Lines that help you find out how organisms are distributed across a certain area.

Transects
200
The cutting down of forests that leads to environmental problems when done on a large scale.

Deforestation

300

Populations of different species living in the same habitat.

Community

300
The process by which consumers get energy.
What is cellular respiration?
300
The series of processes that moves carbon compounds throughout the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere.
What is the carbon cycle?
300

Brown bears hibernating over winter is an example of this type of process for organisms living in different environments.

Adaptations

300
Methane and carbon dioxide are two gases linked to a this major human-caused process.
Global warming
400
The 3 categories all living things in an ecosystem can be placed in.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
400
A linear network of organisms.
What are food chains?
400

The name of a nutrient that is used for making proteins.

What is nitrogen?

400
___________________ is a key limiting factor in aquatic ecosystems.
What is oxygen?
400
Commercial fishing has an impact on which type of ecosystem.
What is aquatic or wetland ecosystems?
500
Name 3 abiotic parts of the Arctic ecosystem.
What are light, weather, and soil?
500
A graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.
What is a food web?
500
Coal, limestone, ocean sediments, oil and natural gas are examples of ___________________.
What are carbon deposits?
500
An abiotic factor that plants compete with each other for.
What is light or water?
500

The destruction of this type of habitat, which is often done to use the land as farmland or to harvest compost, contributes directly to rising carbon dixoide levels and the reduction of biodiversity.

Peat bogs