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Ecology
Energy Flow
Levels of Organization
NC Biome/Saltwater Food web
Cycles of Matter
100

Energy for all life processes comes from here.

What is the sun

100
Organisms that make their own food.
What is an autotroph.
100

Natural biotic and abiotic home for an organism

What is a habitat

100

NC has this type of biome

Temperate deciduous forest

100

Each step or level in a food chain or web.

What is a trophic level.

200
The study of interactions between organisms and organisms and their environment.
What is ecology.
200
Feeds on animal and plant remains and other dead matter.
What is a detrivore.
200
Collection of different populations that live together in an area.
What is a community.
200

Ecological areas defined by climate with flora and fauna that have adapted to that environment

What is a biome.

200
They connect biological, geological and chemical aspects of the biosphere.
What are biogeochemical cycles.
300
Heterotrophs that eat both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore.
300
Links all food chains in an ecosystem.
What is a food web.
300
Same species living together

What is population

300

3 capes of North Carolina outer banks

Hatteras, Lookout and Fear

300

Process in which bacteria convert nitrogen gas into ammonia that is usable by plants.

Nitrogen Fixation

400

The highest level of ecological organization.

What is the biosphere.

400
Primary producer in the upper levels of the ocean.
What is algae.
400

A living thing that can grow, reproduce and adapt to an environment

What is an organism

400

Least common and most common organisms from the wood web

Shark, Seahawk or Dolphin & Grass or Phytoplankton

400

These consumers occupy only 1.0% of the energy pyramid.

What is a secondary consumer.

500

A collection of all organisms that live in a particular place, together with their physical environment.

What is an ecosystem

500

Omnivore that eats insects and seeds

Bird

500

Total amount of all living tissue in a trophic level

What is a biomass

500

What snail ate oysters?

Whelks

500

This element is used up in photosynthesis and cycled back into the ground by decomposers

What is carbon.