Vocab
Niche
What is an organism's role in its ecosystem?
Predation is a ____ interaction.
What is biotic?
Plants are ____.
Producers
Limiting factors in photosynthesis
What are carbon dioxide, light, and water?
Term that means a non living component of an ecosystem
What is abiotic?
Ecosystems are made of ____ and ____.
What are communities and abiotic factors?
Feeding levels within food chains
Trophic levels
Plants do photosynthesis using this pigment
What is chlorophyll?
Intra-species competition
Competition within a species
Communities are made up of _____.
What are populations?
In the food chain plant -> mouse -> snake -> owl, the owl is
A tertiary consumer
Photosynthesis and aerobic respiration are ____.
What are opposites?
Grazing
What is the the consumption of standing foliage by wild or domestic herbivores?
Individuals make up ___.
What are species?
In the food chain plant -> mouse -> snake -> owl, the snake is in the ___ trophic level.
3rd
What is C6H12O6 + 6O2 -> 6CO2 + 6H2O?
Biome
What is a broad area of similar or linked ecosystems and similar soils, climate and vegetation groups?
An owl and an eagle competing for prey is ____ competition.
What is inter-species?
Energy is lost in food chains through
Respiration and waste
Stages of the carbon cycle
What are photosynthesis • respiration • feeding • decomposition • fossilisation • combustion ?