A land-based ecosystem

A system that is made up of all the interacting biotic and abiotic parts of a certain place.

This offers protection from UV radiation, helps hold in heat, and contains the oxygen and carbon dioxide required for animal and plant life.

A series of chemical reactions, that occur in organisms near volcanic vents in the ocean floor, that produce energy using chemical compounds instead of sunlight.

How much energy is converted in a food chain after the organism it uses some of that energy for respiration.

The Earth's atmosphere is 78%

During photosynthesis, plants use the Sun's energy to pull what element away from carbon dioxide and water?

Chloroplasts

Energy-rich food compound that stores chemical energy.

Any living thing that gets the energy it needs by making its own food.

A model that describes how the energy that is stored in food is transferred from one living thing to another.

A series of chemical changes that let living things release the energy stored in sugars to fuel all life functions.

A series of chemical changes that let green plants capture the Sun's light energy and transform it into chemical energy.

Any substance that a living thing needs to sustain life.

The pattern of continual use and reuse of a nutrient.

Plants do cellular respiration.

An organism that obtains energy by consuming dead plant and animal matter.

A harmful interaction between two or more organisms that can occur when organisms compete for the same resource.

Any organism that exists by hunting and eating other organisms.

Approximately how much energy moves from one trophic level to the next?

A living plant or animal from which a parasite obtains nutrition.

An organism that lives in or on, and takes its nourishment from, another organism.

This is the maximum population of a species that an ecosystem can sustain.

Any species that has been introduced into and lives in an ecosystem where it is not found naturally.

Any area of land that drains into a body of water.

The number and variety of different species of living things in an area.

Without public health restrictions, what kind of growth would Covid-19 demonstrate?

Social distancing is an example of