THE ECOLOGY STUFF Flashcards

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cellular respiration and photosynthesis

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cellular respiration: is when organisms get energy

photosynthesis: sun into energy for plants

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producers, consumers and decomposers

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producers: are like plants and can “self-feed”
consumers: aka “other feeders” use energy from other things
decomposers: eats dead things

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whats albedo

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the amount of reflected energy the average on earth is around 30%

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whats chemosynthesis

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its a water photosynthesis without the sun by splitting the hydrogen sulphide making a sort of vent then the energy made from this is put into bacteria

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primary consumers

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they eat plants

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is earth a closed or open system

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its a closed system

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what is a trophic level?

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its a food level or chain where its basically saying what eats what

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what is a food web

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a model of food or energy transfer between trophic levels

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what is the pyramid of numbers?

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usually, this one is telling how many of an organism is in one trophic level this can be inverted

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what are biomass and its pyramid

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biomass is an area of living and previously living things the pyramid shows how much energy is transferred to each level. it can be reversed

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what is the pyramid of energy

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this one shows how much energy is transferred from one trophic level to another it cant be reversed

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