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Parts of an Ecosystem for $100 Answer Any organism that performs photosynthesis.

Green Plants (or autotrophs or producers) Back to the Back to the Board

Parts of an Ecosystem for $200 Answer Any organism that must obtain food and eat to obtain nutrients.

Consumer Back to the Back to the Board

Parts of an Ecosystem $300 Answer Any organism that causes dead organisms to decay, recycling nutrients back into the soil.

Decomposers (or saprophytes) Back to the Back to the Board

Parts of an Ecosystem for $400 Answer Term meaning “Organic material” that is present in an ecosystem. This type of factor is either an organism (dead or alive), or some product of an organism (like feces or tree sap).

Biotic Factor Back to the Back to the Board

Parts of an Ecosystem for $500 Answer Three examples of Abiotic Factors that could be found in an ecosystem.

Sunlight, Water, Carbon Dioxide, Oxygen, Temperature, Terrain, etc. Back to the Back to the Board

Relationships Relationships for $100 Answer Animal that hunts for its food.

Predator Back to the Back to the Board

Relationships Relationships for $200 Answer Animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.

Prey Back to the Back to the Board

Relationships Relationships for $300 Answer Type of symbiosis where one organism benefits by harming another organism (tapeworms, lice, etc)

Back to the Back to the Board Parasitism

Relationships Relationships for $400 Answer Type of symbiosis where both organisms benefit from their close interaction.

Mutualism Back to the Back to the Board

Relationships Relationships for $500 Answer The type of symbiosis where one organism benefits from a close interaction and the other organism is unaffected.

Commensalism Back to the Back to the Board

Nutrition Nutrition for $100 Answer What do “Producers” produce?

Glucose (food) Back to the Back to the Board

Nutrition Nutrition for $200 Answer Primary consumers in a food chain must always eat what kind of food?

Green Plants (Producers, Autotrophes) Green Plants (Producers, Autotrophes) Back to the Back to the Board

Nutrition Nutrition for $300 Answer Term used to describe animals that eat both plants and other animals

Omnivore Back to the Back to the Board

Nutrition Nutrition for $400 Answer The term used to describe animals that eat producers.

Herbivores (Primary consumer, First Level Consumer) Herbivores (Primary consumer, First Level Consumer) Back to the Back to the Board

Nutrition Nutrition for $500 Answer Term used to describe a complicated pattern of overlapping food chains.

Food web Back to the Back to the Board

Photosynthesis Photosynthesis for $100 Process that changes radiant energy into chemical energy Answer

Photosynthesis Back to the Back to the Board

Photosynthesis Photosynthesis for $200 The gas plants need to do photosynthesis. Answer

Carbon Dioxide Back to the Back to the Board

Photosynthesis Photosynthesis for $300 Gas Bi-product of photosynthesis Answer

Oxygen Back to the Back to the Board

Photosynthesis Photosynthesis for $400 Name of sugar produced by photosynthesis Answer

Glucose Back to the Back to the Board

Photosynthesis Photosynthesis for $500 Products and Reactants of Photosynthesis (Formula) Products and Reactants of Photosynthesis (Formula) Answer

Carbon Dioxide+Water Glucose+Oxygen Carbon Dioxide+Water Glucose+Oxygen Back to the Back to the Board Sunlight

Energy Energy for $100 All of the energy that is present in an ecosystem comes from this source Answer

Back to the Back to the Board Sun

Energy Energy for $200 Type of organism that can transform light energy into chemical energy Answer

Green Plants (Producer, Autotroph) Green Plants (Producer, Autotroph) Back to the Back to the Board

Energy Energy for $300 Percentage of calories passed on to each step up on the food chain. Answer

10%(90% is lost) Back to the Back to the Board

Energy Energy for $400 How energy is lost as it is transferred to the next level of the food chain. Answer

Heat (Metabolism of the organism that is eaten) Heat (Metabolism of the organism that is eaten) Back to the Back to the Board

Energy Energy for $500 These two types of organisms must be present in order for an ecosystem to be self-sustaining. Answer

Producers and Decomposers Back to the Back to the Board

Amino Acids Name for a chain of Amino Acids

Polypeptide

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