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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| list the levels of organization in order from largest to smallest | biosphere, biome, ecosystem, community, population, and individual. |
| what methods do ecologists use? they're are three. | observing, experimenting, and modeling. |
| what type of organism would be at the beginning of the food chain? | producers |
| what organism uses energy to make its own food? | plants,producers |
| what is the total amount of living tissue within a given tropic level? | biomass |
| what animals eat both producers and consumers? | omnivores |
| a snake that has eaten an insect that fed on a plant is a .....? | consumer |
| what are the 3 types of pyramids and define? | energy-shows about how much energy is avaible at each level. biomass-amount of living matter at each level pyramid of numbers-number of individual organisms at each level |
| what is the process by which bacteria convert nitrogen gas in the air to ammoina? | 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 and between their organisms and their envitonment is called? | ecology |
| what are the combined portions of Earth called in which all livings things exist | biosphere |
| all the members of a particular species that live in the same area are called | population |
| green plants are what? | producers |
| what is the original source of almost all the energy in most ecosystems? | the sun |
| an organism that can not make its own food? | heterothophs |
| organisms that obtain nutriensa by breaking down dead plants | decomposes |
| feeds only plaNTS? | herbivors |
| feeding relationships in an ecosystem make up s food | food web |
| repeated movement of water between earth's surface and the atmosphere is called? | water cycle |
| organisms need nutrients in order to? | survive |