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Ecology
Energy Flow
Levels of Organization
Ecological This 'n' That
It Matters
100
Energy for all life processes come from here.
What is the sun
100
Process by which producers capture the suns energy.
What is photosynthesis.
100
A group of individuals of the same species living in a specific area at the same time.
What is a population
100
An interation in which one organism captures and feeds on another organism.
What is predation
100
To use, change and use a again.
What is recycle.
200
An organism that captures and converts solar energy into chemical energy (food).
What is a producer or autotroph.
200
Links all food chains in an ecosystem..
What is a food web.
200
Collection of different populations that live together in an area.
What is a community.
200
An organism that derives its nutrients from another organism (a host), harming it in the process.
What is a parasite.
200
Compound that is essential for all life and ecosystem survival; the universal solvent.
What is water
300
Organism that must consume another organism for nutrients.
What is consumer or heterotroph
300
Energy or feeding levels within a chain or web.
What is a trophic level
300
A collection of all organisms that live in a particular place interacting with their physical environment.
What is an ecosystem
300
Living components of an ecosystem.
What is biotic
300
Gases recycled between plants and animals.
What are CO2 and O2
400
A heterotroph that returns nutrients from waste and dead matter to the soil.
What is a decomposer.
400
Process that releases energy from food..
What is cellular respiration.
400
A group of ecosystems that have the same climate and dominant communities.
What is a biome.
400
Measure of an ecosystems variety of species.
What is biodiversity.
400
Element the makes up 78% of the atmosphere and is an essential part of the proteins and DNA found in organisms.
What is nitrogen
500
A place or area with a particular set of characteristics where only certain populations or species can live.
What is a habitat
500
Like photosynthesis, but captures the energy stored in chemical bonds of molecules, like hydrogen sulfide, inplace of sunlight.
What is chemosynthesis.
500
The combined portions of the planet in which all life exists.
What is a biosphere.
500
Total amount of living tissue in an energy level.
What is biomass.
500
The movement of water through the biosphere.
What is the hydrologic cycle