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Is released to the abiotic parts of the biosphere from the processes of death and decay by bacteria
What is Nitrogen?
From the atmosphere, it enters the biotic parts of the biosphere through photosynthesis
What is Carbon Dioxide?
Consists of evaporation, precipitation, transpiration, runoff, and respiration
What is the Water Cycle?
Is released into the atmosphere over time out of rocks
What is Phosphorus?
Is an atmospheric gas fixed by leguminous plants in order that it can be used by the plant
What is Nitrogen?
A relationship between humans and birds where the humans follow birds to wild beehives, remove the honey and the human gets honey and the bird eats honey and bees
What is Mutualism?
The relationship between cats and mice
What is Predator-Prey?
The type of symbiosis that a flea is involved in
What is Parasitism?
Relationship between organisms in which both organism benefits
What is Mutualism?
Relationship between organisms in which one organism benefits at the expense of another
What is Parasitism?
The total number of energy units lost if the grass starts with 10,000 units of energy and goes from grass to mouse to cat to coyote
What is 9990?
The step in the passage of energy and matter through an ecosystem
What is the Trophic Level?
The type of organizational level that is a fungus growing on a log
What is a Decomposer?
Through this, water, carbon, and nitrogen are released back into the atmosphere
What is decomposition?
Obtains energy and nutrients from autotrophs
What is a Heterotroph?
The level in which several species interact among one another and with the abiotic parts of the environment
What is an Ecosystem?
The level in which several species in an area interact
What is a Community?
The biological organization of a group of killer whales
What is a Population?
The type of ecosystem in which a pond or stream supports life forms such as fish, water plants, cattails, alligators, frogs, dragonflies
What is aquatic?
A simple model for showing how matter and energy move through an ecosystem
What is the food chain?
The sea stars living in either shallow tidal pools, while others live in the deepest parts of the ocean
What is the sea star’s Habitat?
Cougars eating weakened or diseased animals
What is a cougar’s Niche?
The type of factor in a pond ecosystem that include ducks, mosquitoes, pond plants, and frogs
What is Biotic?
The layer of Earth that supports life
What is the Biosphere?
The place where an organism spends its life
What is a Habitat?