Where do producers get their energy for photosynthesis?
What is the sun?
When a consumer eats a producer who is receiving the energy?
What is the consumer?
The initial source of energy in an ecosystem.
What is the sun?
All the living, or biotic, factors in an ecosystem are referred to by this term.
What is a community?
What percent of energy is transferred between tropic levels?
What is 10%?
A diagram that shows a single pathway of energy as it flows from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
Three of the signs of life of living things
What are moving, growing and changing, responding, needing food, and getting rid of waste.
What are two ways plants adapt to living in the rainforest?
What is growing quickly, growing tall, needing a lot of water, being poisonous, etc.
What would most likely happen to the population of herbivores if the number of carnivores in a food web were to dramatically increase?
What would be a decrease?
A complex networ of interconnected food chains in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
The role of decomposers, such as mushrooms and bacteria, within a food web.?
What is recycling nutrients back into the soil?
In an ecological pyramid, this tropic level contains the most biomass and energy.
What is the producer level?