Quiz thurs

Food chain

• A series of steps in an ecosystem in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten

• No

• No

• No

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Food web

• No

• Network of complex interactions formed by the feeding relationships among the various organisms in an ecosystem

• No

• No

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Phytoplankton

• No

• No

• No

• Network of complex interactions formed by the feeding relationships among the various organisms in an ecosystem

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Trophic level

• No

• No

• Each step in a food chain or food web

• No

Detritivore

• An organism that eats dead or decaying plants or animals as food

• No

• No

• No

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Biomass

• No

• Total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level

• No

• No

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Nitrogen fixation

• No

• No

• No

• Process of converting nitrogen gas into nitrogen compounds that plants can absorb and use

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Denitrification

• No

• Process by which bacteria convert nitrates into nitrogen gas

• No

• No

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Eutrophication

• No

• No

• No

• Harmful algal blooms, dead zones, and fish kills are the results of a process called

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Biomagnification

• No

• The increasing concentration of a harmful substance in organisms at higher trophic levels in a food chain or food web

• No

• No

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3