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Energy Flow in Ecosystems
Cycles of Matter
Biogeography
Biomes
Aquatic Ecosystems
100
An organism that can make its own food.
What is a producer?
100
The study of where organisms live.
What is biogeography?
100
A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms.
What is biome?
100
When fresh water meets salt water.
What is estuary?
200
Consumers that only eat plants.
What is a herbivore?
200
Evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
What is the processes that make up that make up the water cycle?
200
One factor that has affected how species are distributed.
What is continental drift/ motion of Earth's continents.
200
Between the highest-tide line and the lowest-tide line
What is intertidal zone?
300
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
What is a food chain?
300
Process of changing free nitrogen into usable form of nitrogen.
What is nitrogen fixation?
300
The movement of organisms from one place to another.
What is dispersal?
300
Determines a biome?
What is climate, temperature, and precipitation?
300
Below the low-tide line is a region of shallow water
What is neritic zone?
400
Consists of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
400
What cycle moves from the air to the soil, into living things, and back into the air?
What is nitrogen cycle?
400
Three factors that limit dispersal?
What is physical barriers, competition, and climate.
400
Tall trees that form a leafy roof.
What is canopy?
400
Two major types of aquatic ecosystems?
What is freshwater ecosystems and marine ecosystems.
500
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.
What is a energy pyramid?
500
Gas changes into a liquid.
What is condensation?
500
What can dispersal be caused by?
What is wind, water, or living things, including humans.
500
A second layer of shorter trees and vines
What is understory?