Food Pyramid Test Flashcards
What is always the group at the base of a food web/food chain/energy pyramid?
Producers
What is the term used for the creatures that only eat the stuff at the bottom?
Herbivores
What do you call the group of creatures that only eat meat?
Carnivores
What’s the group that can jump all through trophic levels
Omnivores
What groups wins and recycles everything because they win in the end?
Decomposers
Why is the food pyramid “pyramid shaped”?
Energy loss is what it indicates
What do you call it when water evaporates directly from plants?
Transpiration
What word is for the water that actually makes it into the ground for the plants to use?
Infiltration
When water goes from a gas back to a liquid to form a cloud what is this called?
Condensation
What process do plants use to take in Carbon Dioxide?
Photosynthesis
What do humans do that puts the carbon dioxide back into the air?
Respiration
Humans alter the carbon cycle what’s the fancy word for when humans burn the fossil fuels?
Combustion
What do you call when bacteria or lightning take the nitrogen in the air and put it into the dirt for plants to use?
Nitrogen fixation
What do you call when you get an excess amount of nitrogen from soil to go back to the air?
Denitrification
What do humans do that alters the nitrogen cycle?
Farming/agriculture/fertilize
