Warm Up: Abiotic Definition of a non-living object in our biosphere.

. Biotic Just the opposite of abiotic, the definition of a living organism in our biosphere. Autotroph An organism which can produce its own energy and thrive without eating other organisms. Heterotroph An organism which depends on consumption of something else for its energy. Trophic Level A hierarchy of organization in which the movement of energy consumption from one group of organisms to the next is shown, very similar to a Food Chain. Entropy The measure of misconduct and disorder within a closed system, such as separate trophic levels. As animals get more powerful within each trophic level, the tendency for them to fight each other or go against the chain increases. Would plants try to kill other plants and disturb the order? Kilocalorie A measure of 1000 calories. 1. The statement in question makes perfect sense because of a larger organisms stereotypical eating habits. Lets say Hawks eat Gophers, Gophers eat Mice, Mice eat Bugs, and Bugs eat Plants. If hawks eat too many gophers, then there are fewer gophers, which would mean hawks have no food source, and start to diminish in numbers. Due to the hawks diminishing numbers, gophers would soon increase in population, and demand more mice, which would soon be diminished in numbers, making gophers lesser due to a loss of food, only to be followed by an increase in mice because of their now-deceased potential predators. This means less bugs, then, consequentially, less mice because of the lower number of bugs, and then, once again, even more bugs. More bugs means less plants, and less plants mean less bugs, and less bugs means more plants. Quod Erat Demonstrandum. 2. If a meteor was to hit earth during the time of the dinosaurs, most plants and smaller animals would die. Not only that, but we would lose solar energy for surviving plants, meaning plants would become fewer in numbers, larger plant-eating dinos would perish, and carnivorous dinos who ate those dinos would see their demise. Its all a huge chain reaction which starts from the bottom up, wiping out an entire race. 3. When organisms are eaten by a trophic level higher than the lowest, only 10% of THAT energy travels to the next level up. After three of four levels, this energy diminishes to such a number life cannot be sustained without mass murder and eating. 4. In a situation where insects are eradicated from our food chain, any organism dependent on insects of a food source would slowly perish until its hunters make it instinct, and then everything dependent on the insect-dependent organism would die, causing a chain reaction similar to number 2. 5. Since mass is never created or destroyed, it makes sense that when speaking of the Law of Conservation of Mass, we create links to saprophytes, because mass of deceased organisms is transferred to the growth of saprophyte. 6A. C6H12O6 is a sugar molecule. B/C. In a photosynthesis reaction, there are 2 molecules on each side, with 4 in total. There are 36 molecules on each side, both totaling 72. 7. The ever increasing population of humans could be a problem because of our tendency to eat more than our lot. If we out eat any one piece of the food chain, it creates the chain reaction so vividly pictured in the questions answered in the lab prior.

8. The best dietary course we could take in the situation that our food chain is destroyed is one thats based on an herbivores diet. This is because of its ease of consumption for us, the ease of production, the health factor, its importance in rebuilding a food chain, and its likely survival through a food-chain crash. 9. Energy transfers rarely exceed 10% due to the varying needs of energy and reasons to lose energy across the different organisms of a trophic level.