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Ecology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| I eat only plants. I am a | Herbivore |
| I eat only other amimals. I am a | Carnivore |
| I eat both plants and animals.i am a | omnivore |
| I am the first consumer above the producer level.i am a | primary consumer |
| I am a carnivore that eats herbivores.I am a | secondary consumer |
| I am a carnivore that eats other carnivores.i am a | tertiary consumer |
| The levels of nourishment in a food chain are called | Trophic leveles |
| A food chain follows the connection between one______and a single chain of _____ within an _________. | 1.producer; consumers; ecosystem |
| 10.How is a food web different from a food chain? | a food web is a combination of lots of food chains together |
| What happens to energy at each link in a food web? | 90% is lost as heat |
| What type of organism provide the base of a food web? | producer |
| 10.Oxygen is released as a waste produce by plants during the process of ___________ ____________________. Animals take in this oxygen and release it as ___________ ____________________ during the process of _____________________. | photosynthesis; carbon dioxide; cellular respiration |
| 10.In the carbon cycle, plants use energy from the Sun to convert __________________ from the air into organic material that becomes the part of the plant's structure. | carbon dioxide |
| Carbon is released to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide when you breathe during the process of ___________________ or through the _____________________ of dead organisms | respiration; decomposition |
| 10.____________________, or the burning of fossil fuels, also adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.What is nitrogen fixation? ________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ | 1.emissions/combustion* nitrogen fixation is the conversion of nitrogen in the atmosphere into usable nitrogen |
| Define biomass. | the measure of the total dry mass of organisms in a given area |
| 10.When a consumer incorporates the biomass of a producer into its own biomass, a large amount of energy is lost as _____________________ and ______________________. | 1.heat; waste |