What’s What Who’s Who Abiotic Elements Niche & Energy Transfer CyclesHodge- Podge

Any living thing.

What is an Organism?

A group of the same organisms living in the same place at the same time.

What is a Population?

A group of different populations living in the same place at the same time.

What is a Community?

The physical place where organism are able to live.

What is a Habitat?

A complex system where living things interact.

What is an Ecosystem?

Organisms that make their own food using energy from the sun.

What are Producers?

Organisms that need to eat other living things in order to get their energy.

What are Consumers?

Plant eaters.

What are Herbivores?

Organisms that only consume other animals.

What are Carnivores?

Organisms that consume plants and animals.

What are Omnivores?

The amount of rain, snow, hail, etc., that falls in a given area.

What is Precipitation?

The condition of Earth’s atmosphere at a particular time

What is Weather?

The long term weather conditions over large areas of Earth

What is climate?

Lakes, rivers, seas, oceans, ponds, marshes, etc.

What are bodies of water?

Non-living.

What is Abiotic?

The first level “eater” in a food chain (herbivore).

What is Primary Consumer?

The role of an organism in it’s ecosystem.

What is Niche?

The second level “eater” in an ecosystem (carnivore or omnivore).

What is a Secondary Consumer?

Generally, as the number of primary consumers of an ecosystem increases, the number of secondary consumers will begin to __________.

What is Increase?

Generally, as the number of secondary consumers in an ecosystem increases, the number of producers will _____________.

What is Increase?

Plants “inhale” carbon dioxide to perform this process, which creates oxygen.

What is photosynthesis?

When plant respiration puts water vapor into the atmosphere.

What is transpiration?

These “fix” nitrogen in the soil so that plants can use it to grow because they are unable to get it from the atmosphere.

What are bacteria?

The process of water moving from lakes, oceans, rivers, etc., into the atmosphere.

What is evaporation?

The process by which animals produce carbon dioxide.

What is respiration?

Living.

What is biotic?

A diagram illustrating the amount of energy transferred from one level of a food chain to another.

What is an Energy Pyramid?

A diagram illustrating the transfer of energy throughout an ecosystem.

What is a Food Web?

The worldwide average increase in temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere, land, and oceans.

What is Global Warming?

State a way that humans can change their activities to help make the world a better place by lessening their impacts on ecosystems.

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