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All other organisms in a community not referred to as primary producers are what?
Consumers (heterotrophs)
Form the beginning of the food chain by capturing suns energy through photosynthesis
Primary producers (autotrophs)
Consumers that eat plans
Herbivores
A complex of interconnected food chains, a more realistic model of the flow of energy and materials through an ecosystem
Food web
Where doe energy flow occur ?
In food chains
Energy in a ecosystem is what?
Linear or one way
This shows the number of organisms at each tropic level
Pyramid of numbers
Quantitative estimate of the total mass, or amount of living material
Biomass
Connect terrestrial and aquatic envirments
Wetlands
This element is so stable that it does not readily combine with other elements
Nitrogen
Average of weather conditions
Climate
Movement of matter is
Cyclic
Movement of energy is
Linear
Complex interconnected food chain
Food web
Quantitative estimate of the total amount of living material
Biomass
Equation of GPP and NPP
NPP=GPP-plant respiration
What process increases the amount of atmospheric carbon in the carbon cycle?
Cellular respiration and combustion
In a carbon cycle, where is carbon found ?
Limestone rock, oil coals and natural gas, atmosphere, living organisms
What is not directly involved in the hydrologic cycle?
Nitrification
A downwind arid
Rain shadow
Orderly replacement of one community by another
Succession
This views the community as a “super organism” that goes through certain stages of development towards adult hood
Organismic model
