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?
warm temps & plenty of rain allow the rainforest to have...
What is the greatest (highest) amount of biodiversity?
Consumers that ONLY eat plants for energy
What is a herbivore?
A diagram showing who eats whom in an ecosystem (shows where you get your energy from)
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?
this is how you know which organisms are the producers on a food web diagram
What is they have no arrows are pointing into them?
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 isn't naturally a part of an ecosystem and takes over by outcompeting the native species
What is an invasive species?
biome with little to no trees, 4 seasons, lots of grasses, large plant eaters live here
What is the grassland biome?
When a food web has many organisms (higher biodiversity), it becomes ...
What is more sustainable?
Organisms that can obtain energy from all trophic levels in a food web (usually not shown)
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 with very long, cold winters ; evergreens trees with needles ; animals hibernate or migrate
What is the taiga or Coniferous forest?
this is how you determine the number of trophic levels in any food web diagram
What is count the levels in the longest food chain?
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 that has the lowest yearly rainfall
What is the desert?
This is what happens to the energy absorbed by plants during photosynthesis
What is turned into chemical energy?