Basics
Roles
Vocab
Biomes
100
The study of how organisms interact with their environment.
What is ecology?
100
Organisms that make their own energy.
What is a producer?
100

A particular environment and all the living things supported by it.

What is an ecosystem?
100
4 general ecosystems.
How many aquatic ecosystems (biomes) are there?
200
Producers, consumers, and decomposers.
What are roles in a food chain?
200
Organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms.
What is a decomposer?
200

All of the organisms of the same species in a particular ecosystem.

What is a population?
200
5 general ecosystems.
How many land ecosystems (biomes) are there?
300
This model shows feeding relationships between many different consumers and producers in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
300

An organism that feeds on dead organic matter that could have been killed by a predator.

What is a scavenger?
300

All of the organisms found in a single ecosystem.

What is a community?

300

A biome that is made of both salt and freshwater in the area where a river and a ocean meet.

What is an estuary?
400
An animal that is hunted and killed by another for food.
What is prey?
400
Herbivores feeding on plants.
What is a primary consumer?
400

he natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organisms.

What is a habitat?
400

A barrier between the different bodies of water and land.

What is a wetland?
500
An animal that naturally preys on others.
What is a predator?
500
Carnivores at the topmost level of the food chain.
What is a tertiary consumer?
500
Equilibrium in an ecosystem.
What is balance?
500

A place that is mostly inhabited by forests that lose their leaves every year.

What is a temperate forest?
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