Energy Flow
It is an organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer (autotroph)?
It is a relationship in which both species involved benefit.
What is mutualism?
These resources cannot be replenished.
What is nonrenewable?
A treeless biome found in the polar climate zone.
What is tundra?
All the organisms of the same species.
What is a population?
List 3 characteristics of a living organism
What is a reproduction, use energy, waste, growth/development, homeostasis, adaptation/adjustment, made of cells.
It is a primary consumer, it only eats producers.
What is an herbivore?
It is a relationship in which one of the species involved benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
The process of reclaiming and reusing raw materials
What is recycling?
A dry biome with few trees found in the interior of North America.
What is grassland?
Organisms that make their own food are referred to as
What is an autotroph or producer?
What is the largest level of organization?
What is bioshpere
It is a secondary or tertiary consumer, it eats only other animals.
What is a carnivore?
It is a relationship in which one species benefits while harming the other species.
What is parasitism?
The process of turning organic waste into fertilizer.
What is composting?
The biome found in the northwest that receives abundant rainfall and contains mostly conifers.
What is the temperate rain forest?
Multiple species living together in one area
What is a community?
_________ can not be create or destroyed.
What is energy?
They can be found on any trophic level, they eat both producers and consumers.
What is an omnivore?
Mistletoe living on a spruce tree and using it for its food supply is..
What is parasitism?
The long-term rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system
What is global warming/climate change?
A very dry biome found on the continental side of mountains which block precipitation.
What is a desert?
The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
What is natural selection?
Biome
What is a large naturally occurring community occupying a major habitat
They receive the least amount of energy in a food chain.
What is a decomposer?
An example is a butterfly feeding on the nectar from a flower while pollinating the flower.
What is mutualism?
Carbon dioxide, methane, and water are three of these.
What are greenhouse gases
The biome that is made up of conifers that receives most of its precipitation in the form of snow.
What is the taiga?
Any organism that gets nutrition from outside.
What is a heterotroph?
A volcano erupts and destroys the surrounding area, what succession follows?
What is the primary succession?
It is the percent of energy that gets lost at each trophic level.
What is 90%?
A barnacle live on a whale in order to cover more ocean and get more food and the whale doesn't even notice is an example of this type of symbiosis.
What is commensalism?
A resource that cannot be replenished.
What is a non-renewable resource?
A biome made up of mostly broad leaf trees that lose their leaves in preparation for the winter.
What is a temperate deciduous forest?
The classification of organisms into groups.
What is taxonomy?
The difference between a food web and food chain
What are interrelationships between organisms: (also biodiversity amongst food choices in a food web)