Ecosystems
The living components of an ecosystem are called this.
What are biotic factors?
Organisms that make their own food using sunlight.
What are primary producers?
A relationship where both species benefit. Ex: Bees and flowers
What is mutualism?
This cycle involves the movement of ___ through evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
What is the hydrologic (water) cycle?
Nonliving components like water, sunlight, and temperature are known as these.
What are abiotic factors?
The process plants use to convert sunlight into energy.
What is photosynthesis?
A relationship where one benefits and the other is harmed.
What is parasitism?
The process that releases carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere from organisms.
What is cellular respiration?
A group of organisms of the same species living in one area.
What is a population?
Organisms that break down dead organic matter.
What are decomposers?
A relationship where one benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
The process by which bacteria convert atmospheric nitrogen into a usable form for plants.
What is nitrogen fixation?
A group of interacting populations in a specific area.
What is a community?
Only about this percentage of energy transfers to the next trophic level.
What is 10%?
When two species compete for the same limited resource.
What is competition?
The primary reservoir of carbon on Earth is found here.
What are the oceans?
The role or position a species has in its environment.
What is a niche?
A diagram that shows energy loss between trophic levels.
What is an energy pyramid?
When one organism hunts and eats another.
What is predation?
This element is essential for proteins and DNA and is often a limiting nutrient in ecosystems.
What is Nitrogen?