EcoSystem Services
True or False: A concrete swimming pool is an ecosystem service?
False
Name a Biome
Deciduous Forest, Taiga, Tundra, Grassland, Savana, Wetlands, Tropical Rainforest, Desert, Estuary, etc.
True or False: Sleep transfers energy to your body.
False
Name the three ingredients plants need for Photosynthesis.
Sunlight, water, carbon dioxide
Name the organism in a food chain that consumes producers
Primary consumer
True or False: Trees convert carbon dioxide into biomass through photosynthesis
True
What characteristics make up a biome?
similar plants, animals, and climate
Explain the energy flow of a food chain.
producer -> primary consumer -> secondary consumer
Which organisms use the process of photosynthesis?
producers
How do secondary consumers get energy?
By consuming primary consumers who have eaten producers that have stored energy.
Is this an ecosystem service: Climate change causes increased wildfires and stronger storms.
No
False
This biome is lush in plants and animal species, with a canopy of trees, often humid with a lot of rainfall
Tropical Rainforest
What do plants use as food?
They use sugars they create for food.
To feed themselves
Why are bacteria important in an ecosystem?
They convert biomass into nutrients.Bacteria are decomposers, breaking down dead organic matter and releasing nutrients back into the ecosystem for producers to use, thus completing the cycle of life and energy flow.
True or False: Heavy snowfall in the mountains provides fresh water for plants in the spring.
True
This biome has an extreme climate with few animal and plant species.
Tundra
How is biomass created in an ecosystem?
Producers create biomass for the ecosystem by using light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugar.
Photosynthesis
When plants do photosynthesis, they make sugar to feed themselves, what else do they create?
oxygen
A farmer wants to raise ducks. What is the most important thing to consider for calculating reproductive potential of the duck population in 5 years?
How many ducks survive to reproduce each year.
Is this an ecosystem service: Runoff from farms adds nutrients to coastal waters around coral reefs.
No
Ecosystems can better recover from stresses on the ecosystem if what happens?
There are large populations of many species.
How do plants get matter?
The majority of matter in all plants comes from carbon dioxide and water from the air (atmosphere).
Aerobic Cellular Respiration uses sugar and carbon dioxide to create what?
carbon dioxide, water, and Useable Energy
Name the three ways organisms get energy.
Photosynthesis, consumer eating producer, secondary consumer eating a primary consumer (who ate a producer)