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Ecology
Energy flow
Photosynthesis
Heterotrophs
Energy flow 2
100
Interactions among organisms and their environment
What is Ecology?
100
Main energy source for life
What is The sun?
100
Autotrophs use this to power chemical reactions.
What is light energy?
100
Only eat plants
What is a herbivore?
100
One way flow of energy in an ecosystem
What is a food chain?
200
Contains the combined portions of the planet inwhich all life exists
What is the biosphere?
200
Can capture energy from sunlight
What is an Autotroph?
200
This process is responsible for adding what element to the atmosphere.
What is oxygen?
200
Eat other animals
What is a carnivore?
200
Links all food chains to the ecosystem
What is a food web?
300
Group of organisms so similar to one another that they can breed and produce fertile offspring.
What is a species?
300
Autotrophs are also called
What is a producer?
300
This process removes what element from the atmosphere.
What is carbon dioxide?
300
Most humans
What is a omnivore?
300
Each step in a food chain or food web
What is a trophic level?
400
A group of individuals that belong to the same species
What is a population?
400
Organisms that rely on other organisms for their energy and food supply'
What are heterotrophs?
400
Relative amount of energy available at this level of the energy pyramid.
What is 100%
400
Bacteria and fungi
What are decomposers?
400
Total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level
What is biomass?
500
Assemblages of different populations that live together
What is a community?
500
Heterotrophs are also called.
What are consumers
500
This process converts carbon dioxide and water into what 2 compounds.
What is oxygen and glucose?
500
Mites earthworms and snails
What are detrivores?
500
A scarce element required for life.
What is a limiting nutrient?