Energy Flow in Ecosystems
This is a series of events in an ecosystem in which organisms transfer energy by eating and by being eaten.
What is a food chain?
This is the process by which molecules at the surface of a liquid absorb enough energy to change to a gas.
What is evaporation?
This is a group of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms.
What is a biome?
This is a kind of wetland formed where fresh water from rivers mixes with salty ocean water.
What is an estuary?
This is a species that influences the survival of many other species in an ecosystem.
What is a keystone species?
This is the pattern of overlapping feeding relationships or food chains among the various organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
This is the change in state from a gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
This is the average annual conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds, and clouds in an area.
What is climate?
This is an area between the highest high-tide line on land and the point on the continental shelf.
What is the intertidal zone?
This is the first species to populate an area during succession.
What is a pioneer species?
This is a diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.
What is an energy pyramid?
This is any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth’s surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
This is the tallest layer of the rain forest that receives the most sunlight.
What is the emergent layer?
This is the area of the ocean that extends from the low-tide line out to the edge of the continental shelf.
What is the neritic zone?
This is the series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist.
What is primary succession?
This is the main source of energy for producers, consumers and decomposers.
What is sunlight?
These are the processes of the water cycle. There are three.
What is evaporation, condensation and precipitation?
These are the two main factors that determine an area's biome.
What is precipitation and temperature?
These are the two types of aquatic ecosystems.
What is freshwater and salt water?
The illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats.
What is poaching?
Since so much energy is lost going from one level to the next level up, the energy available at the _____ level can support only a few organisms (top, middle, bottom.
What is the top level?
In an ecosystem, carbon and oxygen are both doing this.
What is being recycled?
An environment supports a population by providing all the necessary conditions for survival such as these three things.
What is food, water and space?
These are the four abiotic factors that affect all aquatic ecosystems.
What are sunlight, temperature, oxygen and salt content?
Grass poking through a sidewalk crack is an example of this type of succession.
What is secondary succession?