Biochemical Cycles
Some of the carbon is released back into the atmosphere.
What is cellular respiration?
Energy of movement.
What is kinetic energy?
A sequence in which energy is transferred from one organism to the next as each organism eats another organism.
What is a food chain?
Positively charged
What is a Proton?
Organisms that make their own energy.
What is a producer?
Essential component of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates,
What is carbon?
Stored energy.
What is potential energy?
Shows the feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
Orbit the nucleus
What is an element?
Organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms.
What is a consumers?
Where both Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration are found
What is the carbon cycle?
Energy from the sun enters an ecosystem when plants use sunlight to make sugar molecules.
What is photosynthesis?
Decomposition is carried out by
What is bacteria and fungi?
CO2
What is carbon dioxide?
Each layer of the pyramid
What is trophic level?
The movement of carbon from the nonliving environment into living things and back.
What is the carbon cycle?
Eats only plants.
What are herbivores?
Each time an organism eats another organism.
What is energy transfer?
6 protons, 6 neutrons and found in all earth systems.
What is carbon?
Eats plants and animals.
What is a omnivore?
Makes up 78 percent of the gases in the atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
Eats dead organic matter.
What are Decomposers?
Organisms at the top of the food chain.
What is the tertiary consumer?
will also accept:
What are Apex preditors?
An increase in the temperature of the Earth.
What is global warming?
A way of showing the transfer of energy in an ecosystem.
What is the energy pyramid?