Food chains: Biology unit 9 : Ecology

The complex process of photosynthesis is responsible for:

- converting energy into basic food. - maintaining the food chain - supplying energy to man

Vocab

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A state of change in which the end result is equal or balanced

Dynamic equilibrium

Man's physiology is capable of converting solar energy to meet his needs.

False

All forms of life on earth are linked together in relationships involving ___________.

Food

"For by him were all things created" refers to the person of:

Jesus Christ

The location of earth and its quantity of solar radiation has permitted the unique presence of __________ in the universe

Liquid water

Putting together food molecules with chlorophyll and the light energy from the sun.

Photosynthesis

The most important food-producing organisms of the ocean are

Phytoplankton

The tiny, free floating plants in a lake or ocean; microscopic green algae.

Phytoplankton

Sort the food chain in order from the beginning of the process:

Plant Minnow Bass Man

How do phytoplankton affect the ecosystem of the entire earth?

Through the oxygen cycle

The tiny, free floating animals in a lake, stream, or ocean; rotifers, brine shrimp, and water fleas.

Zooplankton

A series of food energy steps from plants to animals to other animals in a community of living things

food chain

The tiny, free floating surface organisms in lakes, streams, or ocean

plankton

The first link in any food chain is always a(n)

plant

what is meant by "solar radiation equilibrium" in the related ecology principle?

the complex atmospheric conditions combined with the net influx and radiation outflux