Ch Ecology

Question 1

Ecosystem

Answer 1

A place where organisms live

Question 2

Producers

Answer 2

Bottom of food chains/webs, makes their own food

Question 3

Consumer

Answer 3

Middle/top of food chains/webs, feeds off producers/other consumers

Question 4

Scavenger

Answer 4

Feed off of dead bodies

Question 5

Decomposer

Answer 5

Takes biotic waste from dead bodies and recycles it back into the environment

Question 6

Food chain

Answer 6

One of many strands that make up a food web that chow one particular way energy moves through certain animals

Question 7

Food web

Answer 7

Different strands of food chains all connected together to show the bigger picture of where energy goes

Question 8

Energy pyramid

Answer 8

Show a pyramid that has different levels of how much energy goes to the person who eats it (10%)

Question 9

Heterotroph

Answer 9

Feeds off others

Question 10

Autotroph

Answer 10

Makes its own food

Question 11

Trophic levels

Answer 11

Names for each level in an energy pyramid

Question 12

Biomass

Answer 12

Living mass

Question 13

Nitrogen fixation

Answer 13

Where nitrogen

Question 14

Abiotic

Answer 14

Not living

Question 15

Biotic

Answer 15

Living

Question 16

Primary succession

Answer 16

Where an ecosystem is formed

Question 17

Secondary succession

Answer 17

Where an ecosystem is destroyed then reformed

Question 18

Pioneer species

Answer 18

The first species in an ecosystem

Question 19

Weathering

Answer 19

Breaks things down

Question 20

Erosion

Answer 20

Moves it outta town

Question 21

Deposition

Answer 21

Particles fall down?