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Parts of an Ecosystem for $100 Answer Any organism that performs photosynthesis.

Green Plants (or autotrophs or producers) Back to the Back to the Board

Parts of an Ecosystem for $200 Answer Any organism that must obtain food and eat otheres to obtain nutrients.

Consumer Back to the Back to the Board

Parts of an Ecosystem $300 Answer Any organism that causes dead organisms to decay, recycling nutrients back into the soil.

Decomposers Back to the Back to the Board

Parts of an Ecosystem for $400 Answer Term meaning “ Organic material ” that is present in an ecosystem. This type of factor is usually “Alive”

Biotic Factor Back to the Back to the Board

Parts of an Ecosystem for $500 Answer Three examples of Abiotic Factors that could be found in an ecosystem.

Water, Carbon Dioxide, Oxygen, Temperature, Terrain, etc. Back to the Back to the Board

Food Chain and Food Web Food Chain and Food Web for $100 Answer Lowest organism in the food web is usually called a what

Primary producer Back to the Back to the Board

Food Chain and Food Web Food Chain and Food Web for $200 Answer What shows all the possible feeding relationships in a community at each tropic level

Food Web Back to the Back to the Board

Food Chain and Food Web Food Chain and Food Web for $300 Answer Each link in a food chain is called what

Back to the Back to the Board Trophic Level

Food Chain and Food Web Food Chain and Food Web for $400 Answer What is the name of an organism that only eats meat?

Carnivore Back to the Back to the Board

Food Chain and Food Web Food Chain and Food Web for $500 Answer What is the amount of organic matter comprising a group of organisms in a habitat

Biomass Back to the Back to the Board

Cycles Cycles for $100 Answer What are the three cycles that we discussed in class?

Water, Carbon, and Nitrogen Back to the Back to the Board

Cycles Cycles for $200 Answer Photosynthesis takes carbon dioxide and water and converts it into sugar and what?

Oxygen Back to the Back to the Board

Cycles Cycles for $300 Answer What is known as plant sweating?

Transpiration Back to the Back to the Board

Cycles Cycles for $400 Answer Converts nitrates into nitrogen gas

denitrification Back to the Back to the Board

Cycles Cycles for $500 Answer What converts atmospheric nitrogen into ammonium?

Nitrogen fixation Back to the Back to the Board

Changes in an Ecosystem Changes in an Ecosystem for $100 An organism ’ s role in the ecosystem Answer

Niche Back to the Back to the Board

Changes in an Ecosystem Changes in an Ecosystem for $200 A group of organisms of the same species that live in a particular area Answer

Population Back to the Back to the Board

Changes in an Ecosystem Changes in an Ecosystem for $300 What is one method that ecologists use to study the living world? Answer

Observe, experiment, or model Back to the Back to the Board

Changes in an Ecosystem Changes in an Ecosystem for $400 What happens if a lake receives arunoff from heavily fertilized fields. Answer

Algal Bloom Back to the Back to the Board

Changes in an Ecosystem Changes in an Ecosystem for $500 The chemical substances that an organism needs to sustain life Answer

Nutrients Back to the Back to the Board

Energy Energy for $100 All of the energy that is present in an ecosystem comes from this source Answer

Back to the Back to the Board Sun

Energy Energy for $200 Type of organism that can transform light energy into chemical energy Answer

Green Plants Back to the Back to the Board

Energy Energy for $300 Percentage of calories lost at each step up on the food chain. Answer

90% (10% is passed on) Back to the Back to the Board

Energy Energy for $400 How energy is lost as it is transferred to the next level of the food chain. Answer

Metabolism of the organism that is eaten Back to the Back to the Board

Energy Energy for $500 These two types of organisms must be present in order for an ecosystem to be self-sustaining. Answer

Producers and Decomposers Back to the Back to the Board

Name the secondary consumer in this food chain

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