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Vocabulary
Food Chain/Web
Biogeochemical Cycles
Trophic Levels
Wild Card
100
The study of the interactions of living organisms with one another and with their physical evironment.
What is Ecology?
100
The path of energy through the trophic levels of an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
100
Evaporation from leaves.
What is transpiration?
100
The two types of organisms are found at all trophic levels.
What are detritivores and decomposers?
100
The organism at the fourth trophic level is known as _________ consumer.
What is tertiary?
200
The place where a particular population of a species lives.
What is a habitat?
200
A food chain shows ______ path of energy flow.
What is one.
200
Carbon dioxide may return to air and water through the processes of _______, __________, and __________.
What is respiration, combustion, and erosion?
200
These organisms are found at the second trophic level.
What are herbivores?
200
Bacteria and fungi are known as ___________.
What are decomposers?
300
The physical (non-living) aspects of a habitat.
What are abiotic factors
300
Interconnected group of food chains.
What is food web?
300
This biogeochemical cycle is released by weathering.
What is phosphorus cycle?
300
Carnivores and omnivores are found at this level.
What is third?
300
Organisms in a habitat are known as ____________.
What are biotic factors?
400
Organisms that obtain their energy from organic waste and dead bodies.
What are detritivores?
400
The ultimate source of energy for producers and all consumers.
What is the sun?
400
The seepage of water into the ground.
What is percolation?
400
Producers are found at this trophic level.
What is first?
400
An energy pyramid represents the "_________" through an ecosystem.
What is "flow of energy"?
500
The circulation of (abotic) substances through living organisms from or to the environment.
What is a biogeochemical cycle?
500
Another term for a producer.
What is autotroph?
500
This organism helps with the conversion of nitrogen.
What is bacteria?
500
Each trophic level contain about ____ percent less energy than the level below it.
What is 90
500
A community of organisms and their nonliving environment constitute an __________.
What is an ecosystem?