Vocabulary
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
Two or more organisms of the same species.
What is a population?
A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms.
What is a biome?
The definition of biodiversity is _____________________.
What is the variety of different organisms living in a certain area?
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
Includes all of the area in which life is found on Earth.
What is the biosphere?
The biome you would be in if you were standing on a bitterly cold, dry plain with only a few, short plants scattered around.
What is the tundra?
The term given to a species that plays a very important role in an ecosystem. The ecosystem would fall apart quickly if this species disappeared.
What is a keystone species?
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
One individual species.
What is a organism?
The two major types of water ecosystems.
What are freshwater and marine.
The two reasons biodiversity is important.
What are for economic reasons, medical reasons, scientific reasons, enviromental reasons?
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
Two or more populations of species.
What is a community?
Study of the interactions of living things and their environment.
What is ecology?
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
Includes all of the living and non-living things in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
List 3 of the 6 major biomes.
What are the rain forest, desert, grassland, deciduous forest, boreal forest, or tundra?
This group of species are very sensitive to environmental changes. Usually they are the first to be hurt due to pollution.
What are indicator species?
A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate wit each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is a species?