Ecosystem
Interactions
Interactions
The trophic level with the most available energy.
What are producers?
A simple, linear series of organisms in which matter and energy are transferred to each other.
What is a food chain?
Bacteria, Fungi, and Invertebrates.
What are decomposers?
An organism that eats other organisms.
What is a heterotroph/consumer?
Any water that falls out of the sky - rain, sleet, snow, hail.
What is precipitation?
The original source of energy in an ecosystem.
What is the Sun?
A complex network of feeding interactions, usually consisting of multiple food chains
What is a food web?
Oak tree, grass, flowers
What are producers?
An organism whose diet consists mainly of plants.
What is a herbivore?
A graph that shows climate, temperature on one axis and precipitation on another.
What is a climograph?
The process in which plants bring energy into a food web.
What is photosynthesis?
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
Rabbit, deer, slugs
An organism that will eat pretty much anything, plants or animals.
What is an omnivore?
A biome that receives moderate precipitation year round. Has cold winters and hot summers. This biome has a lot of grasses and shrubs.
What is Grassland?
The amount of energy that is passed from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10%?
A plant or animal that is native to an area and does not cause harm.
What is an indigenous species?
Squirrel, chipmunk
An organism that has no natural predators in it's ecosystem.
What is an apex predator?
The coldest biome, located furthest from the equator. Cold and short growing season makes it so few trees and plants exist. Permafrost exists here.
What is Tundra?
The energy that is not absorbed by plants.
What is released as heat?
The total mass of organisms in an energy level.
What is biomass?
Fox, Bobcat, Owl
What are tertiary consumers/apex predators?
The organisms that are responsible for the cycling of nutrients in an ecosystem.
What is decomposers?
These two things make up a biome.
What are climate and biotic factors?