Ecosystems
All the living and nonliving things in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
This biome has trees that lose their leaves in the colder fall and winter months (Hint- New York is found in this Biome)
What is a deciduous forest?
This body of water might flow slow or fast.
What is a river?
A long-term relationship between different species.
What is symbiosis?
A diagram that shows the amounts of energy that flow through each level of a food chain.
What is an energy pyramid?
A group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time.
What is a population?
This biome has more species than all the other biomes due to its warm climate and large amounts of rainfall.
What is a tropical rainforest?
A deep body of water where organisms who live there are adapted to cold, darkness and very high water pressure.
What is the deep sea?
A relationship between species that benefits one species, but harms the other.
What is parasitism?
The organisms in a food chain/web that make their own food.
What is a producer?
What is a community?
This biome receives less than 25 cm of rain each year. Organisms who live in this biome have special adaptations to survive in the dry conditions.
What is a desert?
This ecosystem is formed by a living organism over thousands of years. It is found in warm, shallow water and is home to many other aquatic organisms.
What is a coral reef?
A relationship between species that benefits one species, but does not harm the other.
What is commensalism?
The organisms in a food chain/web that cannot make their own food. They eat other organisms to get energy to live and grow.
What is a consumer?
The place in which an organism lives.
What is habitat?
This biome has a very cold climate and receives very little rain. This biome is found mostly in the northern areas of the world.
What is the tundra?
This is an area of land that is covered by water or flooded for part of each year.
What is a wetland?
A relationship between species that benefits both species.
What is mutualism?
The organisms in a food chain/web that eat waste or dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
The role that an organism has in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
This biome has a cold, dry climate. Trees found in this biome often have needles which help the trees survive the cold conditions.
What is the taiga?
All water ecosystems can be divided into these two categories.
What are marine and freshwater ecosystems?
In a parasitic relationship between 2 species, the animal that is being harmed.
What is the host?
Name the 3 different types of consumers and what they eat.
carnivore- meat eater?
herbivore- plant eater?
omnivore- meat AND plant eater?