Unit 1: Biosphere & Energy Flow

Question 1

What bacteria add back into the biosphere

Answer 1

nutrients

Question 1

What is the study of the interactions of living organisms and the interaction of living organisms and their environment called?

Answer 1

ecology

Question 2

Occupy the first trophic level

Answer 2

autotrophs

Question 3

Many different population make up a

Answer 3

community

Question 4

Final decomposers in the web of life.

Answer 4

bacteria and fungi

Question 5

Consume their food

Answer 5

heterotrophs

Question 6

Each step in a food chain or a food web is known as a

Answer 6

Trophic leve

Question 6

Series of feeding relationships is known as a

Answer 6

food chain

Question 7

Alternate name for a heterotroph

Answer 7

consumer

Question 8

Ecosystems with similar climates and dominant communities are know as

Answer 8

biomes

Question 8

What is passed between organims in a food chain or food web?

Answer 8

energy (only 10%)

nutrients/organic matter

Question 9

A number of the same organisms makes up which level of ecological study

Answer 9

populations

Question 11

Occupies the 5th trophic level

Answer 11

quaternary consumers

Question 12

All the biomes plus the atmophere are known as the

Answer 12

biosphere

Question 13

Occupies the 4th trophic level

Answer 13

tertiary consumers

Question 14

Occupies the 3rd trophic level

Answer 14

secondary consumers

Question 15

Energy travels from the sun into the biosphere in tiny packets called

Answer 15

photons

Question 16

Organism that only eats meat

Answer 16

carnivore

Question 17

Occupies the 2nd trophic level

Answer 17

primary consumers

Question 18

Original source of energy in the ecosystem

Answer 18

sun

Question 20

Organism that only eats plants

Answer 20

herbivore

Question 21

Most specific level of organization

Answer 21

species

Question 23

They are at the top of the food chain and aren’t consumed by an organism other than the detritivores and decomposers

Answer 23

Apex predator/consumer

Question 24

Create their own food

Answer 24

autotroph

Question 25

What ends with bacteria in terms of feeding relationships

Answer 25

energy

Question 26

Alternate name for an autotroph

Answer 26

producer

Question 27

In which biome do we live?

Answer 27

temperate forest

Question 28

Organism that eats both plants and animals

Answer 28

omnivore

Question 29

Organisms that initially begin the break down of organic material such as a dead organism or waste

Answer 29

detritivores