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Food Pyramid
Relationships
100
The mass of living tissue; tissue and other organic material created by living systems.
What is biomass?
100
Caused by the rotation of the Earth.
What is the Coriolis effect?
100
For the most part, the less light the ______ primary productivity.
What is less?
100
Organisms that create energy rich compounds.
What is a primary producer?
200
The capacity to do work.
What is Energy?
200
When wind gets drawn into a low pressure area at the Earth's surface, forming a spiral pattern.
What is a Cyclone?
200
What percent of the available energy transfers from each level of the trophic pyramid?
What is 10%?
200
Eats secondary consumers.
What is a tertiary consumer?
300
An illustration that shows the flow of energy from one organism to the next.
What is a Food Web?
300
A local seasonal weather pattern that causes summers to be very dry.
What is a Monsoon?
300
Most primary production in the sea is from this.
What is phytoplankton?
300
Relationship where one organism benefits while not harming the other.
What is commensalism?
400
A representation of how energy transfers from one level of organisms to the next as they consume each other.
What is a Trophic Pyramid?
400
Warm air rising and cool air flowing in to replace it.
What is Convection?
400
Organic compounds are recycled into the organic compounds that primary producers use.
What is decomposition?
400
A relationship where one organism lives or feeds on the other, usually causing harm.
What is parasitism?
500
The process of releasing energy from carbohydrates to perform the functions of life.
What is Cellular Respiration?
500
As the amount of water vapor increases, the air's density does this.
What is increases?
500
A food web better represents the flow of energy in nature than a trophic pyramid because....
What is organisms often eat across the theoretical levels of the trophic pyramid?
500
Relationship between organisms where both organisms benefit from the association.
What is mutualism?