Autotrophs
An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide
What is Autotroph
The process in which organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water.
What is Photosynthesis
Amount of carbon fixed during photosynthesis by all producers in the ecosystem
What is Gross Primary Productivity
A graphical model of energy flow in a community
What is Pyramid of Energy
An organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances.
What is Heterotroph
Capable of synthesizing their own food from inorganic substances using light as an energy source.
What is Photoautotrophs
The synthesis of organic compounds by bacteria using energy derived from reactions involving inorganic chemicals
What is Chemosynthesis
The rate of production of new biomass by an individual, population, or community
What is Productivity
A graphical representation of biomass present in a unit area of various trophic levels
What is Pyramid of Biomass
True/False Phytoplanktion would be catergorized as a Heterotroph
False
What are the three common types of Photoautotrophs
What is Bacteria, Plants, and Algae
During chemosynthesis organisms living on the sea floor use energy stored in the chemical bonds of hydrogen ____ and methane to make glucose from water and carbon dioxide
What is Sulfide
The rate at which all plants in an ecosystem produce net useful chemical energy
What is Net Primary Productivity
A graphical representation that shows the number of organisms at each trophic level.
What is Pyramid of Numbers
The 3 types of hetertrophs
What is Herbivores, Carnivores, and Omnivores
An organism, typically a bacterium, which derives energy from the oxidation of inorganic compounds.
What is Chemoautotroph
True/False Plants use the process known as Chemosynthesis to produce glucose for food
What is False
The acronym of Net Primary Productivity
NPP
The unit used to measure energy in the Pyramid of Energy
What is Kilojoules (kJ)
True/False Heterotrophs can synthesize their own food
What is True
True/False Chemoautotroph's are capable of fixing carbon to form their own organic compounds
What is False
Photosynthesis in plants generally involves the green pigment chlorophyll and generates ____ as a byproduct.
What is Oxygen
The acronym of Gross Primary Productivity
What is GPP
When energy is passed in an ecosystem from one trophic level to the next, only ten percent of the energy will be passed on it is known as the ______
What is The 10% rule
True/False Autotrophs Heterotrophs cansynthesize their own food and do not rely on any other organism for nutrition
What is True