Module 52 Flashcards
Carrying rate
Highest amount of population an ecosystem can withstand
Thermoregulation
Process of an organism controlling its body temperature
Endotherms
Organisms who regulate heat internally
Ectotherms
Organisms who heat depends on the environment
Metabolic rate
Numbers of calories that an organist burns over time while at rest
Autotrophs
Organisms that gain energy from photosynthesis
Heterotrophs
Organisms who gain energy from consuming other organisms
Primary consumers
Herbivores that eats plants or algae
Secondary consumers
Carnivores that eat primary consumers
Tertiary consumers
Carnivores that eat secondary consumers
10% rule
Approximately 10% or energy is passed along each level of a tropic level
Ecological efficiency
The percentage of available energy that makes its way from one tropic level to the next
Food webs
Complex way to show different feeding relationships, energy flow and matter flow
Flood chains
Linear representations of energy flow
