Name that Biome
1. This area receives very little rainfall, and usually experience very hot days and cold nights.
2. This area is usually dominated with tree species that shed their leaves in the winter months.
1. What is the desert?
2. What is the temperate deciduous forest?
A symbiotic relationship between two or more organisms of different species where all benefit from the association.
The most likely consequence of removing the snake and the hawk from this ecosystem.
What is the ecosystem would be out of balance?
Some scientists believe this gas may be responsible for the greenhouse effect.
What is carbon dioxide?
The number of individuals of a single species per unit area.
What is population density?
1. This area has permanently frozen soil that does not allow for the growth of large plants.
2. Includes the lakes, rivers, ponds, and streams of the earth.
3. This biome is usually located near the equator. Characteristics include high rainfall amounts, dense vegetation, and poor soil quality.
1. What is the tundra?
2. What is freshwater?
3. What is tropical rainforest?
A symbiotic relationship between two organisms of different species where one benefits, and the other is neither harmed nor benefited.
What is commensalism?
The possible trophic levels of the hawk.
What is tertiary consumer or quaternary consumer?
algae --> minnow --> bass --> raccoon
is an example of this.
What is a food chain?
These organisms are responsible for removing carbon from the atmosphere.
Plants, algae, and photosynthetic bacteria
1. This area is dominated by conifer trees and short summers.
2. A type of grassland biome that experiences rainy seasons and long periods of drought.
3. Includes oceans, reefs, and estuaries.
1. What is tiagas?
2. What is the savanna?
3. What is marine?
Parasitism is a symbiotic relationship between ______ organisms of different species where one ______ and the other is ______.
Parasitism is a symbiotic relationship between two organisms of different species where one benefits and the other is harmed.
The possible tropic levels of the mouse.
What is secondary consumer or tertiary consumer?
A deer and a rabbit in a meadow could possibly result in this.
What is competition for food?
Process of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
What is photosynthesis?
Name 6 terrestrial biomes.
What is:
1. tropical rainforests
2. savannas
3. deserts
4. temperate deciduous forests
5. tundras
6. tiagas
7. chaparrals
8. temperate grasslands
Define predation and tell what it helps.
Relationship between species in which one organism (the predator) kills & eats another (the prey). Helps with population control.
What does the graph represent?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OX8saJmei5RJ343CseVJfk5pwiFZq8bl-w-7PqcTAM8/edit?tab=t.0
a logistic growth curve of a population
In the process of ecological succession, the first organisms are called ____ ____ and the final community that exists in the ecosystem is called the ___ ___.
In the process of ecological succession, the first organisms are called pioneer organisms and the final community that exists in the ecosystem is called the climax community.
A way, besides photosynthesis, to remove carbon dioxide.
What is dissolved in the ocean?
Name 6 main types of aquatic biomes.
What is:
1. marine oceans
2. marine coral reefs
3. marine estuaries
4. standing freshwater (lakes/ponds)
5. running freshwater (rivers/streams)
6. freshwater wetlands (swamps, marshes, bogs)
Define symbiosis and list the 3 types.
A relationship in which two different organisms live in close association with each other. Commensalism, mutualism, parasitism.
What does the dotted line on the graph represent? What causes this?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OX8saJmei5RJ343CseVJfk5pwiFZq8bl-w-7PqcTAM8/edit?tab=t.0
Carrying capacity for the population caused by density-dependent limiting factors like predation.
A limiting factor that depends on population size.
What are density-dependent limiting factors?
Draw an ecological pyramid of an ecosystem that has twice as much biomass in producers as there is in primary consumers, twice as much biomass in primary consumers as there is in secondary consumers, and twice as much biomass in secondary consumers as there is in tertiary consumers.
4 layers with each layer roughly half as wide as the one underneath.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15oBCPrTvY7AR_QhwcYRDHAVwjMIFDlh2x2HLDa3uu_c/edit?tab=t.0