Vocab
A large region characterized by specific climate conditions and particular types of plants and animals.
What is Biome?
What is the word equation for photosynthesis?
Carbon dioxide + water → glucose + oxygen
An organism that makes its own food, usually through photosynthesis.
What is a producer?
A chemical process in cells that breaks down glucose to release energy, carbon dioxide, and water.
What is aerobic respiration?
Living parts of an ecosystem: producers, consumers, decomposers.
What are biotic components?
A community of living organisms interacting with each other and their non-living environment.
What is an ecosystem?
What is the chemical equation for photosynthesis?
6CO₂ + 6H₂O → C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂
An organism that eats producers (usually herbivores).
What is a primary consumer?
What is the word equation for aerobic respiration?
Glucose + oxygen → carbon dioxide + water
Non-living parts of an ecosystem: temperature, humidity, water, oxygen, salinity, light, pH.
What are abiotic components?
A group of individuals of the same species living in a specific area.
What is a population?
What pigment captures light energy for photosynthesis?
Chlorophyll
How is energy transferred in a food chain?
From producers to consumers through feeding.
What is the chemical equation for aerobic respiration?
C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂ → 6CO₂ + 6H₂O
Competition between individuals of different species.
What is interspecific competition?
All the different populations that live together in an area.
What is a community?
What are the limiting factors of photosynthesis?
Availability of water, concentration of carbon dioxide, and availability of light.
A feeding level in a food chain or food web.
What is a trophic level?
What are the stages of the carbon cycle?
Photosynthesis, respiration, feeding, decomposition, fossilisation, combustion.
Competition between individuals of the same species.
What is intraspecific competition?
The role and position a species has in its environment, including how it gets food and interacts with other organisms.
What is a niche?
How does photosynthesis affect carbon dioxide levels?
It removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and stores it in plants, helping regulate climate.
How is energy lost in a food chain?
Through heat, movement, and waste.
What does the carbon cycle describe?
The movement of carbon through the atmosphere, organisms, and Earth.
When herbivores feed on plants, affecting plant populations.
What is grazing?