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ROLES
ECOSYSTEMS
WATER CYCLE
VOCAB.
MISC.
100
A consumer that only eats meat.
What is a carnivore.
100
Name a producer in a forest.
tree, grass, shrubs, etc.
100
Water falling from clouds.
What is precipitation.
100
An organism that converts the Sun's energy into food.
What is a producer / autotroph?
100
A variable experiment that is measured or recorded.
What is the dependent variable.
200
A consumer that only eats plants.
What is a herbivore.
200
What is the top consumer in this food chain? dandelion - rabbit - hawk
hawk
200
This is the first step in the water cycle.
Evaporation
200
The role an organism plays in its environment.
What is a niche?
200
The independent variable is graphed on this axis.
What is the x-axis
300
A consumer that eats plants or animals.
What is an omnivore.
300
Producers are found at what trophic level?
1st
300
This step produces clouds.
What is condensation.
300
A series of organisms that transfer food/energy between trophic levels.
What is a food chain.
300
The dependent variable is graphed on this axis.
What is the y-axis.
400
An organism that absorbs nutrients from dead/decaying matter.
What is a decomposer.
400
What is the fewest number of links possible in a food chain?
2 (producer - consumer)
400
Evaporation from plants.
What is transpiration.
400
A predator that causes diversity in its habitat.
What is a keystone predator.
400
The variable that is controlled by the scientist.
What is the independent variable.
500
A carnivore that does not hunt its food.
What is a scavenger.
500
How much energy is available to producers in any given ecosystem?
100%
500
What is the shortest amount of time in which the water cycle can take place?
about 2 weeks
500
Increasing concentration of a pollutant in a organism in the top trophic level.
What is biomagnification.
500
A portion of the experiment that does not involve the independent variable.
What is a control group.