Organisms
Consumers that ONLY eat other animals for energy
What is a carnivore?
Energy transformation that occurs during photosynthesis
What is Radiant to Chemical?
The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem
What is biodiversity?
Biome located along the equator; has the highest amount of biodiversity
What is the tropical rainforest?
The act of cutting down trees in a forest for economic growth resulting in extreme habitat loss
What is Deforestation?
Consumers that ONLY eat plants for energy
What is a herbivore?
A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten
What is a food chain?
The ability of an ecosystem to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions.
What is ecological sustainability?
Biome with the lowest amount of biodiversity; soil is permanently frozen (permafrost)
What is the Arctic tundra?
The presence or introduction of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects on the environment
What is pollution?
A consumer at the top of the food web that is not hunted by any other species
What is an apex predator?
A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains
What is a food web?
A species that invades an ecosystem and takes over by outcompeting the native species
What is an invasive species?
Largest biome (covers 70% of the Earth's surface)
What is the marine biome?
An ecological problem that occurs when a species' population exceeds the carrying capacity of its ecological niche.
What is overpopulation?
Organisms that can obtain energy from all trophic levels in a food web
What is a decomposer?
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one trophic level to another in a food web
What is an energy pyramid?
A species that influences the survival of many other species in an ecosystem
What is a keystone species?
Biome that includes: lakes, ponds, streams, rivers and wetlands
What is the freshwater biome?
The process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.
What is desertification?
Organisms that always start food chains, food webs and energy pyramids
What is an autotroph/producer?
Rule that states that organisms only receive 10% of their prey's energy
What is the 10% rule?
Ecological domino effect starting at the top of the food chain and tumbling all the way down to the bottom
What is a trophic cascade?
Type of ecosystem found in Africa, nicknamed the "Sahara"
What is the desert?
Illegally hunting or catching (game or fish) on land that is not one's own or in contravention of official protection.