lesson 3.2 Flashcards

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What is a producer

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An organism that phtosynthesizes to make food

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What is a consumer

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An organism that gets it food from other organisms

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What is a trophic cascade

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How different species effect eachother

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What is noticed with biomass and population size as you go up in the pyramid

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Biomass increases and population size decreases

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kelp is the producer it is eaten by sea urchins and sea urchins are eaten by otters what will happen if all the otters in the area die out

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Sea urchins will significantly increase in population size and kelp will significantly reduce in population size due to nothing controlling the Sea urchins population

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