3.3 Bio Flashcards
What are Trophic levels?
How energy is shared within a community in its circulation
What is the difference between an autotroph and a heterotroph?
An auto(self) trophy(energy) produces its own energy otherwise known as a producer. a hetero(different) troph(energy) gets its energy from different places, a consumer
What is the difference between a herbivore, omnivore, carnivore, and detrivore
They eat plants, plants and animals, animals, and dead things, respectfully
What is a keystone species?
A species that has a major role in a community, either producing for or limiting other species.
What is a Trophic cascade
How one species affects another indirectly.
What is the difference between a food web and a Trophic cascade?
A food web shows who eats who, a Trophic cascade shows how something affects another thing.
In the kelp forest food web, what is each species role
Kelp, producer. Urchin primary consumer, otter secondary consumer.
In the savannah Trophic cascade model what may reduce the frequency or intensity of wildfires, more or less of the virus on wildebeests?
Less of the virus will allow more wildebeest and less vegetation, limiting wildfires.