The Circles of Life
Just Can't Wait to Eat Things
"B" Prepared
Hakuna Matata
Can You Feel the Love
100
evaporation, transpiration, and precipitation are parts of this cycle
What is the water cycle?
100
an animal that preys on other animals for food
What is a carnivore? (predator also acceptable)
100
the living parts of an ecosystem, such as plants and animals
What are biotic factors?
100
don't worry about bringing an umbrella when visiting this biome, though depending on where it is, you may need a coat
What is a desert?
100
parasites love the nourishment they get from this organism, who is harmed in the process
What is the host?
200
photosynthesis and respiration are part of these two interlinked cycles
What is the oxygen and carbon cycles?
200
an animal that eats only plants
What is a herbivore?
200
the sum of all the regions where life exists on Earth
What is the biosphere?
200
these organisms don't worry about getting food, because they can make their own
What are producers (or autotrophs)?
200
ocean dwellers that love light must live in this thin upper layer
What is the photic zone?
300
Most of the earth's oxygen is trapped in ___
What is rocks/minerals?
300
a depiction of the overlapping paths that energy can take through an ecosystem
What is a food web?
300
the level of an ecological pyramid where you will always find the producers
What is the bottom?
300
A lion never worries about being hunted because it is always the predator and never prey, putting it at the top of this diagram, which shows how energy passes from one organism to another in an ecosystem
What is a food chain? (food web or ecological pyramid also ok)
300
organisms love to participate in this type of symbiosis, where both organisms benefit
What is mutualism?
400
the process by which atmospheric nitrogen is converted to ammonia and then other nitrogen compounds that living things can use
What is nitrogen fixation?
400
a carnivore that eats recently dead animals
What is a scavenger?
400
organisms like crabs and coral that live on the ocean floor
What are benthic organisms?
400
these consumers don't worry about what's on the lunch menu, because they'll eat either plants or other animals
What are omnivores?
400
If you love fall leaves and spring flowers, you should live in this biome
What is a deciduous forest?
500
the three ways that nitrogen in the air can be fixed
What is 1)bacteria on the roots of legumes, 2)bacteria in the soil, and 3)lightning
500
the position occupied by an organism on an ecological pyramid
What is a trophic level?
500
one of the few types of trees that you might find on a savanna
What is a baobab tree?
500
the type of symbiosis in which neither organism helps or worries the other
What is neutralism?
500
decomposers love to eat this, which is dead plant and animal material
What is detritus?
M
e
n
u