Biomes
How organisms interact
Cycles found in nature
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
100
This biome has trees such as maple and spruce trees. Mosses often cover rocks here. Squirrels, racoons, and owls are examples of smaller animals found here. Elks, cougars, and bears are some examples of larger animals found here.
What is a Temperate Rainforest?
100
This relationship between two different organisms can result in both being helped, one being helped and the other being harmed, or one being helped and another not being affected at all.
What is symbiosis?
100
This cycle begins with the sun providing light for plants, plants are then consumed by herbivores, and herbivores are consumed by larger carnivores or omnivores.
What are food chains?
100
All living and non-living things in an area. (Definition)
What is an ecosystem?
100
The role that an organism has in an ecosystem. (Definition)
What is a niche?
200
This biome is found near the equator and is warm all year long. Some of these places receive large amounts of rain. Because plants in this biome can easily have their needes met populations of plants and animals tend to grow well. This biome has the most species of all biomes.
What are Tropical Rainforest Biomes?
200
This is a result of animals of the same species having a limited amount of resources. Such as territory, food, or other resources.
What is competition?
200
This diagram displays the cycle of energy found in a food chain. The base is the largest part and contains the most energy. As you continue up the diagram there is less energy available.
What are energy pyramids?
200
A group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time. (Definition)
What is a population?
200
Made up of all the populations in an area. (Definition)
What is a community?
300
This biome tends to exist in cooler places and may not have a huge amount of rainfall. This biome also covers large areas of the Eastern United States. Trees such as oaks, elms, and maples are found here.
What are Decidous Forest Biomes?
300
This plant displayed its ability to compete with other plants by taking them over and covering them up. This resulted in the original plants not being able to get sunlight and eventually they died out.
What is kudzu?
300
This cycle found in nature explains how things such as wood chips and dead leaves return to the soil. Organisms such as fungi, banana slugs, and millipedes are all decomposers that take part in this cycle.
What is the matter cycle.
300
The place in which an organism lives. (Definition)
What is a habitat?
300
A diagram that shows the amounts of energy that flow through each level of a food chain. (Definition)
What is an energy pyramid?
400
This biome is partly covered with water or is flooded at least part of each year. This means that many of the plants and animals in this biome are found on land and in water. Alligators, fish, deer, and snakes can usually be found here. Plants and microorganisms found here often act as filters, cleaning the water as it flows through.
What are wetlands?
400
This type of organism makes its partner organism suffer while it benefits. An example of this found in nature is a worm that feeds off another organism causing harm to the organism.
What are parasites?
400
This cycle found in nature explains how organisms get an important chemical that they would not be able to use in its natural form. The cycle can start with high heat from lightning which makes the chemical useable to plants and animals. The cycle completes iteself when an organisms dies and the chimical returns to the atmosphere.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
400
A repeating process or a repeating flow of material through a system. (Definition)
What is a cycle?
400
This process, usually done by plants, is one way that Oxygen can enter the atmosphere.
What is photosynthesis?
500
This area of the ocean has many different species living together. Because this biome relys on algae it can only exist in warm shallow waters. Divers can see sharks, clams, crabs, clownfish, eels, and many other animals here.
What are coral reefs?
500
Clownfish and sea anemone display this type of symbiosis in their environment.
What is mutually beneficial? (both are helped)
500
This cycle is a constant balance between the needs of plants and the needs of humans and other organisms. The cycle consists of plants producing a gas that humans need to survive and in return humans produce a gas that plants need to survive.
What is the oxygen / carbon dioxide cycle?
500
This process, found in nature (forest fires or volcanos) or man made (machines or cars), results in carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere.
What is combustion?
500
A large ecosystem with generally the same climate, plants, and animals. (Definition)
What is a biome?
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