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This is the study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment
What is ecology?
100
All the living things within an ecosystem form this
What is a community?
100
Term for organisms that can make their own food (same as autotroph)
What is producer?
100
Type of consumer that only eats plants
What is herbivore?
100
Three ways in which carbon can enter the atmosphere
What is volcanic activity, respiration, and burning fossil fuels
200
This refers to the combined portions of the planet that contain life
What is the biosphere?
200
Within a biome, this refers to the living things and their physical environment
What is an ecosystem
200
Term for organisms that must rely on other living things for food
What is consumer?
200
Type of consumer that only eats animals
What is carnivore?
200
Main way in which carbon is taken out of the atmosphere
What is photosynthesis?
300
Within the biosphere, these are large regions with similar climate and dominant communities within them
What are biomes?
300
The main source of energy for life on Earth
What is the sun?
300
Type of consumer that eats both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
300
If a grass has 100% of the sun's energy, a grasshopper who eats the grass will receive only this much.
What is 10%?
300
Two ways nitrogen can enter the soil
What are fixation and mineralisation?
400
Organisms that are so similar they can breed and produce fertile offspring
What is a species
400
The process by which plants use the sun's energy to make their own food
What is photosynthesis?
400
Type of consumer that breaks down organic matter (like fungi)
What is a decomposer?
400
Two ways in which water enters the atmosphere
What are evaporation and transpiration?
400
Term for when nitrates are absorbed by plants
What is assimilation
500
A group of individuals belonging to the same species
What is a population
500
A process where organsims can produce their own food using inorganic chemicals instead of sunlight
What is chemosynthesis?
500
Type of consumer that eats dead things
What is a detritivore?
500
Four terms that describe how water leaves the atmosphere and can return to accumulated sources
What is condensation, precipitation, runoff, and seepage.
500
Term for when bacteria convert nitrates back into nitrogen gas, which goes back into the atmosphere
What is denitrification?