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Organism Types
Food Web Interactions
Environment
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Vocabulary
100
All organisms that make their own food are called
What is producers?
100
From where do autotrophs get the energy that produces their food?
What is sun?
100
The oxygen level in Earth’s early atmosphere was very low due to the lack of
What is living things? (photosynthetic algae)
100
Which of the following animals is not a carnivore? (cheetah, dog, tiger, deer)
What is deer?
100

The amount of biomass present in an ecosystem at a particular time.

Standing crops

200
Raccoons will eat almost anything. They are most accurately called
What are omnivores?
200
Heterotrophs can be all of the following except
What are producers?
200
Destruction of forests can result in reduced rainfall and a drier climate in the forested region. This is due to
What is reduced transpiration?
200
Raccoons will eat almost anything. They are most accurately called
What is omnivores?
200

The transportation of dissolved molecules through the soil via groundwater

Leaching

300
Condors are related to vultures and feed on carrion, or dead animals. Condors’ role in the food web is as
What are decomposers?
300

Overhunting by humans of an herbivore would most adversely affect which organisms in the ecosystem?

What are secondary consumers?

300
Large amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide are absorbed by
What are the world's oceans?
300
You are a secondary consumer when you consume a chicken salad glass of orange juice candy bar piece of bread
What is chicken salad?
300

The six key elements that organisms need in relatively large amounts: nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, and sulfur

macronutrients

400

To be a tertiary consumer, you’d have to eat

a secondary consumer

400
Food-web stability is most dependent on
What is the number of connections among species?
400
Nitrogen is a key element in the formation of what substances necessary to living organisms?
What are amino acids?
400

If a forest has a GPP of 200 J/m2/day and 100 J/m2/day worth of carbon dioxide flows out of that forest, what is the NPP?

100 J 

400

Representation of the distribution of biomass, numbers, or energy among trophic level

Trophic Pyramid

500
Plants living in nutrient-poor ecosystems sometimes trap and digest insects. These plants can therefore be considered
What are carnivores?
500
Which type of organism is likely to suffer the effects of biological magnification most?
What is a tertiary consumer?
500
Legumes enrich soil by adding nitrogen to it through their
What is root nodules?
500

If the GPP for a patch of forest is 10 kg Carbon /m2 /year, and the amount of carbon dioxide LEAVING the ecosystem (don’t ask how we measured this!) is 5 kg Carbon /m2 /year, what is the NPP?

5 kg of carbon

500
The proportion of consumed energy that can be passed from one trophic level to another

Ecological Efficiency