1st Semester 2022 Review

Compounds used by cells to store and release energy

• ATP

• ADP

• Glucose

• Xylem

First producer of energy-rich compounds that are later used by other organisms

• Primary Consumer

• Secondary Consumer

• Tertiary Consumer

• Primary Producer

Physical or nonliving factor that shapes an ecosystem.

• Biotic factor

• abiotic factor

• Trophic level

• Primary producer

Largest number of individuals of a particular species that a particular environment can support

• Trophic Level

• Consumer

• Biosphere

• Carrying Capacity

Total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level

• Density Dependent Factor

• Trophic Level

• Biomass

• Organ

A limiting factor that depends on population density

• Density independent limiting factor

• Dependent variable

• Derived Characteristic

• Density dependent limiting factor

A limiting factor that affects all populations in a similar way, regardless of the population density

• Density independent limiting factor

• Dependent variable

• Derived Characteristic

• Density dependent limiting factor

Organism that relies on other organisms for its energy and food supply: also called a heterotroph

• Producer

• Consumer

• Primary Producer

• Compound

Each step in a food chain or a food web

• Trophic Level

• Biomass

• Primary consumer

• Primary producer

Small opening in the epidermis of a plant that allows carbon dioxide, water, and oxygen to diffuse into and out of the leave

• Xylem

• Phloem

• Guard cell

• Stoma