Ecosystem Basics
Food Chains & Webs
Energy Transfer
Biochemical Processes
Anything Else
100
A single living thing in an ecosystem, such as one chimpanzee, is called this.
What is an organism?
100
In the food chain below, it is this who is at the top.
What is the owl?
100
All life is based on these types of organisms.
What are producers?
100
The process plants use to turn sunlight into food is called this.
What is photosynthesis?
100
An organism that eats only meat is called this.
What is carnivore?
200
A herd of cows, OR a flock of birds, OR a school of tuna fish, are called this.
What is a population?
200
In this food chain, the chameleon would be considered a ______ consumer.
What is secondary?
200
Only this percentage of energy gets transferred from one level to the next in a food web.
What is 10%?
200
A plant needs these three things in order to increase biomass.
What are sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide?
200
This is the largest biome in the world.
What is the marine biome?
300
Clownfish and coral together make up this.
What is a community?
300
In this food web, the elephant would be considered a __________ consumer.
What is primary?
300
Heat energy is usually measured in this unit.
What are calories?
300
All organisms use this to turn glucose into ATP energy.
What is cellular respiration?
300
An organism that eats dead material, such as a vulture, is called this.
What is a detritivore?
400
The climate, the type of terrain, and the amount of water, oxygen, and carbon dioxide are all this type of factor in an ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
400
In the food web below, these are the direct food sources for the snake.
What are the shrew and the frog?
400
The main source of energy for all living things on earth is this.
What is the sun?
400
It is this color that shows us where photosynthesis occurs.
What is green?
400
If 30 mL of water was raised 10 degrees Celcius, this is how many calories was added to the water.
What is 300?
500
An area that contains living and non-living things, and all their interactions between them, is known as this.
What is an ecosystem?
500
In some sense, these can be considered the top of the food chain, since they eat EVERYTHING!
What are decomposers?
500
If 10,000 kg of organisms are available at trophic level 2, then how many kg of organisms are available at trophic level 4?
What is 100?
500
If there is an unlimited amount of carbon dioxide, but only 600 molecules of water, then this is how many molecules of glucose a plant can produce.
What is 100?
500
If 100 calories was added to water, and the temperature increased from 5 to 10 degrees celcius, then this is the amount of water, in mL, that was in the container.
What is 20?