vocabulary
What is the death of all organisms of a species?
What is extinction
This biome has the highest temperatures and heaviest amount of annual rainfall.
What is rainforest
climate change is NOT a cause of extinction
What is false
Which organism is a carnivore? bacteria grass wolf worm
wolf
which is an example of parasitism? a bird eating insects that bother an ox a deer tick sucking blood from a dog's ear a remora eating scraps from a shark's meal an ant protecting aphids, then getting a drink from them
What is a deer tick sucking blood from a dog's ear
The use of less of a resource to make the supply last longer is called...
conservation
Terrestrial biomes are biomes found
on land
A volcanic eruption is a natural cause for an ecosystem to change
What is true
Which organism is not a decomposer? earthworm fungus protist tapeworm
tapeworm
A larva of an antlion builds a pit in dusty soil. It waits for small insects to fall into the pit, and then it eats them. What is the antlion's method of hunting an example of? parasitism succession adaptation a limiting factor
What is an adaptation
What is the relationship between different kinds of organisms called?
What is symbiosis
Coldest biome
Tundra
Driving in your car instead of walking is an example of conservation.
What is false
Seals eat sea urchins, and sea urchins eat sea weed.
Which effect will an increase in sea urchins MOST likely have when looking at this food web?
decrease in sea weed
What is a contest among populations that need to get a certain amount of food, water, and shelter to survive?
What is competition
The largest terrestrial biome on earth. It extends in a broad band across North America, Europe, and Asia to the southern border of the arctic tundra. It is also found at cool, high elevations in the more temperate latitudes.
Taiga
Sea anemones use their tentacles to sting their prey. However, fish like the clown fish are not harmed by the anemone's sting. They often lived around the anemone's tentacles to get protection from predators. What type of symbiosis best describes this relationship between the clown fish and the sea anemone?
What is commensalism
What diagram shows the complex feeding relationships between different food chains in an ecosystem?
What is a food web
This biome has four changing seasons including winter, spring, summer, and fall.
What is temperate biomes
Different populations in a community often compete for the same resources
true
what is the order in which energy flows in an ecosystem?
sun->producer->herbivore->carnivore->decomposer
Fox eats grasshoppers and rabbit, and those eat grass.
The removal of which organism would result in the MOST damage to the ecosystem?
What is grass