Bio unit 8

  1. What is interdependence and give an example.

  • ALL organisms interact with the biotictabiott fucters- surudel dependo on tuese interactens

  • Respirartion→ people beed this to live

  1. Identify kinds of consumers in ecosystems → primary » seconday >Tetery

3.Explain the role of decomposers in an ecosystem.

• Consumers that eat "garbage"

Ex: volture

4. Explain why ecosystems usually contain only a fewer trophic levels

[only a certain % of energy gets passed on ]

- only 10% gets passed on

5.What are the three necessary ingredients of an ecosystem?

1)Source of energy

2)energy stored in chemical bonds, like food

3) Essential substences like water, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen are recycled betweon

  1. BIOM MASS ORDER

    biosphere, biome, community, species, population, individual

  2. Describe glycolysis. (What are the reactants and products? Where does it occur?)

    • happens in the cytosal in cytoplasm
      → sirieres of rections which break the 6-carbon glucoses
      moleclos docwn into two 3-carbon molecules
      called purat