What is an ecosystem?
Nonliving parts of the ecosystem.
What is water, soil, temperature, and sunlight?
Biome that is home to more than any other species.
What is the tropical rainforest?
Creatures that live in the deep ocean need to adapt to an environmental factor.
What is high pressure?
Break down waste and dead organisms.
What are decomposers?
Diagram that shows the amounts of energy that flow through each level of a food chain.
What is an energy pyramid?
What are insects?
biome that has plants with large root system and close to the surface.
What is desert?
Partly covered with water or is flooded at least part of the year.
What is a wetland?
Decomposers break down remains of dead organisms they make __________.
What are nitrogen compounds?
Eat animals to obtain energy.
What are carnivores?
Group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time.
What is population?
Have thick fur to help them survive in the taiga biome.
What are elk?
Grow well in water that does not have many nutrients.
What are coral reefs?
Volcanoes power out more than just lava and ash.
What is carbon dioxide?
Eat both plants and animals
What are omnivores?
What is a niche?
Plants living in the same area will compete for water. Plant that has the greatest chance of survival is ______________.
What is a plant with the largest root system?
Algae help the corals make ______________.
What is a hard outside coating?
Much of the oxygen in the atmosphere does not come from plants, it comes from _________.
What is plankton in the oceans?
Cannot make their own food.
What are consumers?
Name of trees that grow well in a temperate rainforest because it is wet, cool climate.
What are maple and spruce trees?
Main biome found in Europe and the eastern half of the United States.
What are deciduous forest biomes?
Largest river ecosystem in North America.
What is the Mississippi River?
When forming a lichen, these need each other to survive.
What is fungus and bacteria?
On an energy pyramid with plants, rabbits, snakes, and owls, the greatest amount of energy is located here.
What are plants? (bottom of pyramid)