Energy Flow
An organism that makes its own food using energy from the sun
What's a producer?
Disney's The Lion King uses the phrase, "The Circle of Life" to describe the sequence in which energy is transferred from one organism to the next... What is the scientific term?
What is a food chain or food web?
A gradual process of change and replacement of some or all of the species in a community
What is ecological succession?
Animals that have backbones
What are vertebrates?
The world's longest river
What is The Nile?
The process by which a plant uses sunlight to make sugar molecules
What is photosynthesis?
A process by which an element found in all living things is transferred between the atmosphere, land, water and organisms
What is the carbon cycle?
The creation of a new ecosystem
What is primary succession?
The combination of all biotic and abiotic factors in a given area
What is an ecosystem?
Harry Potter was almost sorted into this house
What is Slytherin?
Organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms
What are consumers?
A process by which the main element in the atmosphere is transferred between the atmosphere, bacteria and other organisms
What is the nitrogen cycle?
The regeneration of an existing ecosystem after some kind of disturbance
What is secondary succession?
The process in which gasses trap heat near the Earth, contributing to global warming
What is the greenhouse effect?
Na stands for this element in the periodic table
What is sodium?
The process of breaking down food to yield energy
What is cellular respiration?
The only organisms that can make atmospheric nitrogen accessible for other organisms
What are nitrogen-fixing bacteria?
The first organisms to colonize any newly available area and begun the process of ecological succession
What are pioneer species?
Chunks of the lithosphere that glide along the asthenosphere beneath Earth's surface, similar to chunks of ice drifting on a pond
What are tectonic plates?
This planet is closest to Earth
What is Venus?
Consumers that get their food by breaking down dead organisms
What are decomposers?
The movement of an element that is rarely in gas form from the environment to organisms and then back to the environment
What is the phosphorus cycle?
A final and stable community
What is a climax community?
The transfer of heat across space and in the atmosphere
What is radiation?
This language is most popularly spoken worldwide
What is Chinese?