Energy and Trophic Levels
What is a producer?
An organism that makes it's own food
What is the process by which living things produce offspring?
Reproduction
This term refers to the increase in the number of people living in a particular area over time.
Population growth
What is the process called where animals or plants better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce
What is natural selection?
The basic physical and functional unit of heredity made up of DNA
Gene
What trophic level are plants in?
1st
what type of reproduction involves only one parent and produces genetically identical offspring?
Sexual reproduction
As population increases, this natural resource often becomes scarce due to higher demand.
What is water?
When people choose animals or plants to have babies with certain traits, what is this called?
What is artificial selection?
The sum of all living matter on earth
Biosphere
What do you call animals that eat's only plants?
Herbivores
What is the name of the male reproductive cell in animals?
What is a sperm?
This process occurs when urban areas expand due to increasing populations, often leading to loss of wildlife habitats.
What is urbanization
What do we call the physical features or qualities an animal or plant has?
What are traits
a community of organisms and their physical environment interacting together
Ecosystem
How much energy is passed from one trophic level to the next?
10%
In humans, where does fertilization usually take place?
Fallopian tube.
This environmental issue is worsened by both population growth and deforestaion, contributing to climate change.
What is increased carbon emissions.
What is an example of a trait that can be chosen in artificial selection
What is size, color, or taste?
A diagram that shows the total amount of energy contained within each trophic level
Energy Pyramid
In a trophic pyramid, why is there typically less biomass. mat higher trophic levels compared to lower ones?
Because energy decrease at each trophic level, supporting fewer organism and less biomass at higher level.
What is term for development of a new organism from a fertilized egg??
Emprynotic development
This demographic economic concept explains how population growth can slow down as countries develop and improve living standards,impacting environmental pressures.
What is the demographic transition model?
Why do farmers use artificial selection on plants and animals?
What is to get better crops or animals?
A Type of sexual reproduction in which cell divides to form gametes with half the number of chromosomes as the parent cell
Meiosis