What is any LIVING part of an ecosystem.
What is a population?
What is ecology?
A group of different populations that live together in a defined area.
A group of ecosystems that share similar climates and typical organisms.
What type of consumer eats only other animals?
What does a scavenger eat?
An ____________ eats both plants and animals.
Carbon Dioxide, Water and Sunlight react to form Glucose(sugar) and Oxygen. What is this process called?
Primary Producer : Autotroph :: Consumer : ___________
Which direction does the arrow point in a food chain or food web?
Who are the recyclers in a food chain or a food web?
What is a trophic level?
The total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level is what?
If you were to cause a disturbance in a food chain or food web, what would happen to that food chain or food web?
Biogeochemical cycles cover what three things?
Nitrogen fixation is when nitrogen ______ is converted into nitrogen _____________
What is denitrification?
A nutrient whose availability limits productivity is what?
How do humans participate in biogeochemical cycles?
What is an abiotic factor?
What is all the organisms that live in a place, together with their physical environment.
An herbivore is a consumer that eats only what?
What type of consumer chemically breaks down organic matter?
How much energy is passed from one level to the next in a pyramid of energy?
Biotic Factor
A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area.
The scientific study of the interactions between organisms and their physical environment
Community
Biome
Carnivore
The carcasses (leftovers) of other animals.
Omnivore
Photosynthesis
Heterotroph
Towards the organism that consumes or eats the other.
Decomposers and detritivores
Each step in a food chain or food web
Biomass
Parts of the food web or food chain would begin to die.
Life, Earth, and chemical cycles.
Gas; Compounds
Conversion of nitrogen compounds into nitrogen gas by bacteria.
A limiting nutrient
They are living things so they use biological processes, and through mining, burning fossil fuels, clearing land, farming, manufacturing, and more
A nonliving part of an ecosystem.
Ecosystem
Plants
Decomposer
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