Definitions
An organism that consumes other producers or consumers.
Consumers
A geographical area described by its climate, plants, and animals.
includes all of the members of a species found in a given area
What is population.
These two types of water systems make up aquatic biomes.
What are saltwater and freshwater systems.
where plants and animals live and are determined by the major climate zones on Earth.
What is a land biome.
An organism role in an ecosystem.
What is Niche.
This biome experiences cold weather year round, where subsoil is typically frozen.
What is a Tundra Biome.
non-living parts of the environment.
What is Abiotic Factors.
what is 70%.
A feature of the tropical rainforest.
What is heavy rainfall.
A geographical area described by its climate, plants, and animals
What is a biome.
This biome experiences long and severe summers and winters with thawing subsoil.
What is the Taiga.
a community and the physical environment interacting and fucntioning together
What is an Ecosystem.
This type of biome holds large quantities of heat and helps to stabilize the Earth's atmosphere.
What is Salt Water System.
This factor includes sunlight, temperature, and wind in an ecosystem.
what is Abiotic Factors.
The portion of the Earth in which life exists
What is the Biosphere.
Common animals in this biome are fox, deer, and raccoons with a vast majority of deciduous trees.
what is the temperate deciduous forest.
break down dead organisms and make their materials available for other living things
What is a decomposer.
Less than 3% of this water biome accounts for water on Earth.
What is fresh water system.
A rabbit, a stream, and a patch of grass are observed in an ecosystem. Which one is not a biotic factor?
What is a stream?
These factors determine the numbers and kinds of organisms that can inhabit an ecosystem
This biome contains drought resistant shrubs and plants.
What is the desert.
the study of interactions between organisms and the living and nonliving parts of their environment
What is Ecology.
Photosynthesis can only occur at this certain depth in water.
What is 30 meters.
his factor begins as biotic but, once an organism dies and decomposes into nutrients in the soil, it can also be considered abiotic in its influence on the environment.
What is a decomposing organism.