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All other organisms in a community not referred to as primary producers are what?

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Consumers (heterotrophs)

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Form the beginning of the food chain by capturing suns energy through photosynthesis

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Primary producers (autotrophs)

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Consumers that eat plans

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Herbivores

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A complex of interconnected food chains, a more realistic model of the flow of energy and materials through an ecosystem

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Food web

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Where doe energy flow occur ?

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In food chains

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Energy in a ecosystem is what?

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Linear or one way

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This shows the number of organisms at each tropic level

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Pyramid of numbers

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Quantitative estimate of the total mass, or amount of living material

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Biomass

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Connect terrestrial and aquatic envirments

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Wetlands

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This element is so stable that it does not readily combine with other elements

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Nitrogen

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Average of weather conditions

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Climate

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Movement of matter is

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Cyclic

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Movement of energy is

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Linear

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Complex interconnected food chain

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Food web

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Quantitative estimate of the total amount of living material

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Biomass

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Equation of GPP and NPP

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NPP=GPP-plant respiration

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What process increases the amount of atmospheric carbon in the carbon cycle?

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Cellular respiration and combustion

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In a carbon cycle, where is carbon found ?

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Limestone rock, oil coals and natural gas, atmosphere, living organisms

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What is not directly involved in the hydrologic cycle?

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Nitrification

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A downwind arid

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Rain shadow

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Orderly replacement of one community by another

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Succession

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This views the community as a “super organism” that goes through certain stages of development towards adult hood

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Organismic model

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