Cycles of Matter
What is Ecology?
Communities
Biomes
Flow of Energy
100

Water changes to water vapor.

What is evaporation?

100

The largest population size that can be supported in an area without harming the environment.

What is carrying capacity?

100

One species benefits, the other is harmed.

What is parasitism?

100

Land based Biome

What are terrestrial biomes?

100

25% of the energy passes up through a food web.

What is false?

200

Water vapor changes to liquid.

What is condensation?

200

The science of how living things interact with their environment.

What is ecology?

200

Both species benefit.

What is mutualism?

200

Primary producers in most aquatic biomes

What are phytoplankton?

200

Demonstrates many pathways through which energy flows.

What is a food web?

300

Ice changes directly to water vapor.

What is sublimation?

300

Living or once living aspects of an environment.

What are biotic factors?

300

A relationship between species where one species benefits.

What is symbiosis?

300

Narrow strip exposed at high tide but covered at low tide.

What is the intertidal zone?

300

My favorite food.

What is chips and salsa?

400

Water falls from the atmosphere.

What is precipitation?

400

Aspects of the environment that have never been alive. 

What are abiotic factors?

400

One species benefits, the other is not affected.

What is comensalism?

400

Water near the surface contains more of this.

What is dissolved oxygen?

400

Ms. Marianna's favorite food.

What is?

500

Sedimentary rocks, fossils fuels and the ocean contain this element that is the basis for life on earth.

What is carbon?

500

The most successful weed species on earth.

What are humans?

500

Predator species that play a special role in their community.

What is a keystone species?

500

The primary producers in terrestrial biomes.

What are plants?

500

Breaks down the waste of organisms.

What are decomposers?