Energy Flow Through Ecosystems
Cards (35)
- What is the main topic discussed in the video?
- What does the term ecosystem include?
- What does it mean for organisms to be an open system?
- What is the primary energy source for most ecosystems?
- Who are the primary users of sunlight in ecosystems?
- How do producers convert solar energy?
- What factors affect the production of producers?
- What is the primary energy source for organisms in open caves?
- What type of bacteria are found in closed caves?
- What do food chains illustrate?
- What do arrows in food chains represent?
- What is a common mistake students make with food chains?
- What should the final organism in a food chain be?
- What is a food web?
- How are organisms classified in trophic levels?
- In the carrot-rabbit-fox food chain, what is the carrot?
- In the grain-grasshopper-bird-fox food chain, what is the grain?
- What role do decomposers play in ecosystems?
- What are the two types of decomposers?
- How do saprotrophs digest food?
- How do detritivores digest food?
- What are autotrophs also known as?
- What do autotrophs synthesize from inorganic substances?
- What type of reactions do autotrophs use to build carbon compounds?
- What is required for anabolic reactions?
- What is the energy source for photoautotrophs?
- What do chemoautotrophs utilize for energy?
- What do oxidation reactions involve?
- How do chemoautotrophs use oxidation reactions?
- What do all organisms need to produce?
- What is the formula for aerobic cellular respiration?
- What happens to glucose during cellular respiration?
- How do autotrophs send carbon compounds to cellular respiration?
- What do heterotrophs need to do to obtain energy?
- What is the end goal of all metabolic processes?