List the two categories of nonliving things. List the categories of living things.
What does life depend on? (4 things)
Life is not independent.
What are the four reasons we need energy?
What are the producers? Where do they get their food?
What are consumers? Where do they get their food?
What are decomposers? Where do they get their food?
Why do we need decomposers?
Describe what producers, all consumers, and decomposers eat.
What category do scavengers fall under?
Food webs/chains are based on the flow of and from one organism to another.
What keeps living organisms in balance?
List the trophic levels in order from largest to smallest.
Decomposers + producers + =
What are communities?
What is the 1st law of thermodynamics?
What happens to the energy (1st law)?
What is the 2nd law of thermodynamics?
Animals receive what kind of energy from food?
Where do plants get food? What is the process called?
Why is matter important?
Energy escapes a food chain as .
What do we use energy received for? (3 things)
Organisms have needs to make energy unavailable to the next consumer.
List the levels of biological organization from smallest to largest. (only the ones covered in class) KNOW THE TRIANGLE
What is an organism?
What is a species?
Give examples of fauna.
Give examples of flora.
What is a population? Give an example.
What is an important characteristic of a population?
What is a community?
What is part of a community?
Give an example of a community.
What does biotic mean? Give an example.
What does abiotic mean? Give an example.
Define ecosystem.
Ecosystems do not have .
Can things move from one ecosystem to another? Give an example.
List the 5 components of an ecosystem.
If one portion of an ecosystem is destroyed what happens?
What is the biosphere?
What are the three components of the biosphere?
What are the biogeochemical cycles?
What occurs in the atmosphere in the water cycle?
How does water “get” to the atmosphere?
What 3 things happen once water returns to the geosphere?
What is nitrogen fixation?
What are the 2 usable forms of nitrogen? Name and chemical formula
What is eutrophication? How does it occur?
What are the processes to get oxygen?
Which biome does not involve the atmosphere?
Describe the layers of the rainforest.
Which biome is most diverse?
What are the three types of forest biomes?
What is the tropical rainforest responsible for? What are the 3 biogeochemical cycles that they play a vital role in?
What are the characteristics of the deciduous forest?
Describe the taiga’s climate.
Why does soil form slowly in the Taiga?
As precipitation decreases, what happens to diversity?
Describe the landscape of the Savanna.
What are the two “seasons” of the Savanna? What occurs in each?
Describe the plants found in the Savanna.
Describe the temperate grassland.
Why are there few trees in the grassland?
What changed the grassland? How?
What kind of climate does the Chaparral have?
What is the biggest threat to the Chaparral?
Describe the desert.
Describe the tundra.