Ch 3 Environmental Science

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What is a consumer that only eats meat?

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Carnivore

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What percentage of the energy fixed by plants is available to a lion that eats a gazelle?

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1%

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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What organisms recycle nutrients within the ecosystem by breaking down nonliving organic matter?

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Decomposers

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What do you call an animal that eats a secondary consumer?

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Tertiary consumer

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What is the mass of living tissue in a trophic level called?

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Biomass

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What is the term for organisms that produce their own food through photosynthesis?

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Producers

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

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What is the role of herbivores in an ecosystem?

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Herbivores are primary consumers that eat plants.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

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What is the energy transfer efficiency between trophic levels?

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Typically around 10%.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

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What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?

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A food chain is a linear sequence of organisms, while a food web is a complex network of interconnected food chains.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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What is the term for the maximum population size that an environment can sustain?

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Carrying capacity