Biomes
Which biome has grasses as the main plant life?
Grassland
What word matches the definition: "is the living and nonliving things in an environment and all of their interactions."
Ecosystems
What is a producer?
is an organism that makes its own food.
is a diagram that shows the amount of energy available at each level of a food web in an ecosystem. It illustrates how energy decreases as you move up the food chain.
Energy Pyramid
is all the members of a single type of organism in an ecosystem
Population
Which biome has trees that lose their leaves each autumn?
Deciduous forest
What is an Biotic factor? Give me 1 example.
A factor that is a living thing.
Example: Trees, Humans, and animal or plant.
What is a consumer?
is an organism that cannot make its own food.
What are Carnivores?
Organisms that only eat meat.
is all the populations within an ecosystem.
Community
Which biome is found near the equator and has much rainfall?
Tropical Rain Forest
What is an Abiotic factor? Give me one example.
A nonliving thing within an ecosystem.
Example: Water, Sunlight, Rocks
What is a decomposer?
is an organism that breaks down wastes and the remains of other organisms into simpler substances.
is the struggle among living things for water, food, and other resources.
Competition
is one of Earth's large ecosystems with its own kind of climate, soil, and living things.
Biomes
A large, treeless biome where the ground is frozen all year
Tundra
the home of the organism is called what?
habitat
What is a omnivore?
this shows is the path that energy takes from one organism to another in the form of food. It shows a simple, linear flow of energy through an ecosystem.
Food Chain
What is at the very bottom of the Energy Pyramid?
What is Producers?
What biome is a cool rainforest of conifers found in the northern hemisphere?
Taiga
What is the difference between a population and an community?
Population: is all the members of a single type of organism in an ecosystem. It includes every individual of one species living in the same area.
Community: is all the populations within an ecosystem. It includes every different species of plant, animal, and other organisms living together in one place.
What is a herbivore?
Animals that eat only plants
this shows how food chains overlap in an ecosystem.
Food Web
What is at the very top of the Energy Pyramid?
Carnivores (Top Predators)