Biomes
What trees are in a taiga biome?
Pine trees.
What is the largest level of organization?
Biosphere
What is an autotroph?
An organism that uses the sun's energy to make food.
Identify an abiotic factor in an desert ecosystem.
Sand, water, sunlight, temperature
Define the term population.
A group of organism of one species that live in the same area.
Describe a tundra.
A tundra is a barren plain with little vegetation that is covered in permafrost.
Which level contains biotic and abiotic factors?
Ecosystem
What can be defined as the amount of species that can be consistently be supported in a habitat.
Carrying capacity.
Name a biotic factor that influences a tropical rainforest ecosystem.
Predators, humans
How do populations change in accordance to the environment. Explain.
Populations can change based on the availability of food and resources, as well as other factors such as weather and human intervention. Based on these factors, the population living in an area can grow or shrink, either surviving or dying from extinction or exceeding the carrying capacity.
Name a country that contains a Chapparal biome.
Chile, Australia, Italy, USA
Order each level from smallest to largest and describe each of them.
Individual - a single living organism
Population - group of organisms of one type that lives in the same area
Community - populations that live in the same area
Ecosystem - the community and its abiotic surroundings
Biosphere - contains all ecosystems
Give examples of commensalism, parasitism, and mutualism.
Mutualism: Bees and flowers
Commensalism: Barnacles and whales
Parasitism: Ticks and mammals
Name 1 biotic factor that would be in an ecosystem with a seal.
Fish, seaweed, walrus
Is it fitting to say that a population is a species?
No. A species can live in many different parts of the world, but populations live in specific areas. Therefore, calling a population a species would label each different population of a species as separate species.