3.3 Bio Flashcards

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What are Trophic levels?

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How energy is shared within a community in its circulation

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What is the difference between an autotroph and a heterotroph?

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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

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What is the difference between a herbivore, omnivore, carnivore, and detrivore

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They eat plants, plants and animals, animals, and dead things, respectfully

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What is a keystone species?

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A species that has a major role in a community, either producing for or limiting other species.

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What is a Trophic cascade

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How one species affects another indirectly.

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What is the difference between a food web and a Trophic cascade?

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A food web shows who eats who, a Trophic cascade shows how something affects another thing.

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In the kelp forest food web, what is each species role

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Kelp, producer. Urchin primary consumer, otter secondary consumer.

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In the savannah Trophic cascade model what may reduce the frequency or intensity of wildfires, more or less of the virus on wildebeests?

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Less of the virus will allow more wildebeest and less vegetation, limiting wildfires.

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