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Succession
Food Chains & Webs
Classification
Tropisms
Producers
100
The pioneer plants in primary sucession
What is lichens?
100
A specific example of a producer is...
What are plants, grass, flowers, trees, fruit, veggies...(answers will vary)?
100
Scientist who classify organisms are called
What are taxonomist?
100
A plants repsonse to gravity
What is gravitropism?
100
The place where producers are found in the food pyramid
What is the bottom?
200
This is faster (primary or secondary succession)
What is secondary succession?
200
An example of a heterotroph is...
(answers will vary)
200
The father of modern classification
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
200
Define tropisms
What is a plants response to an external stimuli?
200
Organisms that make their own food are said to be
What is autrophic or autotrophs?
300
Starts with absolutely no life- no soil
What is primary succession?
300
Explain the 10% rule
What is "not all energy is passed on, only 10%- much of the energy is lost due to heat"?
300
The two part naming system used to classify organisms
What is binomial nomenclature?
300
A plants response to water
What is hydrotropism?
300
The chemical process used by plants to create food
What is photosynthesis?
400
Starts after a tragic event such as a major flood or wild fire
What is secondary succession?
400
At the top of the food chain
What is a tertiary consumer?
400
The broadest taxonomic level of classification
What is a kingdom? (will also accept, "What is a domain?")
400
Give an example of a tropism in action.
(answers will vary)
400
Plants convert radiant energy from the sun into _______ energy
What is chemical energy?
500
A stable area, may include large trees but isn't always necessary.
What is a climax community?
500
This is more accurate (food web or energy pyramid)..and why
What is a food web? Food webs show all the organisms in an ecosystem and how they interact with each other.
500
The way that the specific epithet should be written.
What is upper case Genus, lower case species. Either in italics or underlined?
500
A plants response to touch
What is thigmotropism?
500
The organelle in plants where photosynthesis occurs
What are chloroplasts?