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What is photosynthesis

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Photosynthesis is a cycle that helps plants to be healthy, grow, and make their own food

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What are the basic needs of biotic elements

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Oxygen, water, food, a place to live, and energy

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How do biotic elements interact to meet their basic needs

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Biotic elements meet their basic needs by feeding off other biotic or abiotic things, or they find a place to live

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How do plants meet their basic needs

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Plants use sunlight, soil, and water to grow

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What are producers

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Producers are biotic things that can make their own food to supply the matter and energy they need to survive

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What are consumers

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Consumers are biotic elements that feed on other biotic elements

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what makes the leaves green

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chlorophyll

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what are producers roles

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they produce oxygen, supply food, and provide shelter

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what are some type of consumers

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herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores

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What is a prey

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a prey is a animal that is hunted for food

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what is a predator

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a predator is a animal that hunts and consumes the prey

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what are scavengers

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scavengers are consumers that do not usually kill their own food

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what are detritivores

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detritivores are consumers that feed off waste

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what is organic matter

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organic matter is matter derived from living things

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what are decomposers

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decomposers are consumers that break down dead plants and animals into smaller pieces

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what are examples of scavenger, detritivores and decomposers

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vultures, earthworms, and bacteria

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what is a food chain

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a food chain shows feeding interactions between consumers and producers

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how do food chain start

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they start with a producer, then the arrow points to a consumer, and so on

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What is a energy pyramid

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an energy pyramid shows the amount of energy transferred in a food chain

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what are primary consumers and examples

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Primary consumers eat producer. Some examples are insects, cows and horses

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what are examples of secondary consumers

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Secondary consumers examples are frogs, birds, lizards, and snakes

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Tertiary Consumers

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Tertiary Consumers are consumers that eat the secondary consumers. Some examples are wolves, lions and hawks

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how does the 10% rule work on energy transfers

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if the producer have 100,000 kcal available then the hawk would have 100 kcal

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what is the 10% rule

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for the example if the producers have 10,000 kg, then for the next level you need to divide by 10

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what are food webs

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a food web shows interconnected food chains. A food web is a complex network of feeding relationships

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how much energy is transferred to the next level

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10%

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what are abiotic limiting factors

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sunlight, water, climate, temperature, soil, natural disasters, space, and fire

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what are biotic limiting factors

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amount of plants and animals, competition, decomposers, parasites, and diseases

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what are density independent factors

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density independent factors are for the example the number of organisms, or the amount of food for each organism

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what are density dependent factors

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density dependent factors are for example that it does not depend on the number of organisms

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water cycle

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collection, evaporation, condensation, and precipitation

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benefits of composting waste materials

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riches the soil, not waste food, grows new plants, caring for and helping the earth, and gives nutrients to the soil

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how does bio invasion affect the ecosystem

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it affects the ecosystem because the type of species can grow rapidly and wipe out other species in its new area

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what are each level of the energy flow called

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it is called the trophic level

35
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where does the percentage of energy go to

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it goes to the heat

36
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What is competition

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competition is when 2 animals compete for 1 food

37
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Carbon Cycle

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Carbon moves from the atmosphere to plants.
Carbon moves from plants to animals.
Carbon moves from plants and animals to soils. Carbon moves from living things to the atmosphere. Carbon moves from the atmosphere to the oceans.