Invasive Species
Some invasive species can change this making it out of place for native plants and animals.
What is a habitat?
A diagram that shows the feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
A symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit
What is mutualism?
Top level consumers like eagles that are most affected by biomagnification.
What are tertiary consumers?
What is nitrogen gas?
Invasive species can outcompete native species for resources leading to ____.
What is extinction?
About 10% of energy is transferred from one level to the next while the majority is lost as this.
What is heat?
A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is harmed.
What is parasitism?
The increasing concentration of a toin in the tissues of an organism at higher levels in the food chain.
What is biomagnification?
This process moves nitrogen from the air to the soil
What is nitrogen fixation?
This type of species can outcompete native species and disrupt ecosystems.
What is an invasive species?
This trophic level is primarily organisms that produce their own food through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.
What are producers?
A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits from the other and the other is neither harmed or helped.
What is commensalism?
The term for organisms at the base of the food chain that take up the toxins first.
What are producers?
This process converts ammonia into nitrates using nitrifying bacteria.
What is nitrification?
Invasive species do best in areas with low levels of this making environments at risk of invasion.
What is biodiversity?
These organisms break down dead matter, giving nutrients back to the ecosystem.
What are decomposers?
The ability to blend in with the environment.
What is camouflage?
The amount of a poisonous substance in an organism.
What is toxin concentration?
Breaks nitrogen gas apart and add hydrogen toms to it to form ammonia in soil.
What is nitrogen fixing bacteria?
Removing invasive species are common practices in ____.
What is restoration?
Organisms that obtain energy by feeding on other organisms.
What are consumers?
A trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce.
What is an adaptation?
A well known pesticide that caused a lot of biomagnification issues leading to its ban in many countries.
What is DDT?
Essential for making DNA, RNA, and proteins
What is the nitrogen cycle?