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Ch 3 study guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Levels of organization in order from largest to smallest | Biosphere,Biome,Ecosystem,Community,Population,Individual. |
| What 3 methods do Ecologists use? | They Observe,Experiments,and Model. |
| What type of organism would be at the beginning of the food chain? | Producer/Autotroph |
| What organism ussess energy to make its own food | Plants, producers |
| What is the total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level | Biomes |
| What animals eat both producers & consumers | carnivores |
| A snake that eats a frog that has eaten an insect that fed on a plant is a | consumer |
| what is the process by which bacteria convert nitrogen gas in the air to ammonia | Nitrogen fixation |
| the movements of energy and nutrients through living systems are different because? | matter is recycled within and between ecosystems |
| the branch of biology dealing with interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment is callled | Ecology |
| what are the combined portions of Earth calling in which all living things exist | Biosphere |
| all the members of a particular species that live in the same area are called | Populations |
| Green plants are what | Producers |
| what is the original source of almost all the energy in most ecosystems | Sunlight |
| an organism that can not make its own food | Heterotrophs |
| organisms that obtain nutrients by breaking down dead and decaying plants and animals are called | Decomposers |
| whats is an organism that feeds only on plants called | Herbivores |
| all interconnected feeding relationships in an ecosystem make up a food | Food Web |
| the repeated movement of water between earths surface and the atmosphere is called | Water cycle |
| organisms need nutrients in order to | Live |
| organisms in the oceans with the smallest total biomass are most likely the | Prooducers |
| water can enter the atmosphere through the processes of evaporation and | Transpiration |
| plant eating animals such as cows are called | Herbivores |
| only about___ percent of the energy in a trophic level is available to organisms at the next level |