Photosynthesis
The primary source of energy.
What is the sun?
An organism which uses chemical energy from hydrogen sulfide to create organic molecules such as glucose.
What is a chemotroph?
Pyramid that represents the amount of energy between trophic levels.
What is the pyramid of Energy?
Organisms that absorb less sunlight due to their clear bodies.
What is phytoplankton.
The season when productivity is at its highest.
What is summer?
An organism that produces glucose from light energy.
What is an autotroph?
The process where bacteria oxidizes hydrogen sulfide to produce glucose.
What is chemosynthesis?
Pyramid that shows the amount biomass present in an ecosystem's trophic levels.
What is the pyramid of biomass?
The decay of leftover parts of dead organisms whos energy is not used.
The rate of biomass produced per unit area.
What is primary productivity?
The process used by plants, algae and certain bacteria to convert light energy into chemical energy.
What is photosynthesis?
Where chemosynthetic bacteria is located.
What is a hydrothermal vent?
Pyramid that represents the total population in a trophic level.
What is the pyramid of numbers?
The process of discarding waste that contains unused energy inside an organism.
What is excretion?
The category that carbon, nitrates, and phosphates are apart of that increase photosynthesis rates.
What is nutrients?
The pigment used in photosynthesis.
What is Chlorophyll?
A product photosynthesis and chemosynthesis use in common to produce glucose.
What is carbon dioxide?/What is CO2?
The trophic level that makes up the longest portion of the energy pyramid.
What is trophic level 1?
The maximum percentage of energy transferred between trophic levels.
What is 10% of energy?
The total energy captured by primary producers from the sun.
What is Gross Primary Production?/What is GPP?
The zone of the ocean where photosynthesis occurs.
The process by which inorganic carbon is converted to organic compounds by living organisms.
What is carbon fixation?
The trophic level group of organisms within the third level of the energy pyramid.
What is a secondary consumer?
Trophic level group that feeds off of phototrophs.
What is a secondary consumer?
The remaining organic substances produced by photosynthesis after respiration that represents an energy source which can be transferred to higher trophic levels.
What is net primary production?/What is NPP?