Biomes
Species interactions and Energy Transfer
Misc.
Matter Recycles
Energy Flow
100
What is the biome characterized by short growing seasons, cold temperatures, and vast, flat, treeless land?
What is the tundra
100
What is organic material in an ecosystem?
What is biomass
100
What is the initial energy source for most life on earth?
What is sunlight
100
What is the scientific name for the process of burning fossil fuels
What is combustion?
100
What is an organism that breaks down dead plants and animals into nutrients for the soil?
What is a decomposer
200
What is the biome with four seasons, cold winters, hot summers, and between 30-60 inches of precipitation a year?
What is the temperate deciduous forest
200
What feeds on the "garbage" of an ecosystem?
What is a detritivore
200
What is a physical rather than biological factor that is not derived from living organisms?
What is an abiotic factor
200
What is the process by which animal wastes and dead organisms are converted to other nitrogen-containing compounds?
What is decomposition
200
What is an environment that has living and nonliving things which interact?
What is an ecosystem
300
What is the biome characterized by high temperatures and a high amount of average rainfall. This biome also contains a wide variety of species?
What is the tropical rainforest
300
What is a change in anatomy that results when two species compete for the same resource?
What is character displacement
300
How is atmospheric nitrogen removed from the atmosphere?
What is nitrogen-fixing bacteria
300
Rain, sleet, and snow are examples of what?
What is precipitation
300
About how many levels are there on a pyramid of energy?
What is 4-5
400
What is the biome characterized by rolling hills with shrubs and isolated trees with not enough rainfall to support forests?
What is the savannah grasslands
400
What is a change in anatomy that results when two species compete for the same food sources and cannot live in the same community?
What is competitive exclusion
400
What is one major area of water storage on the earth?
ocean or groundwater or surface water or atmosphere
400
Which process associated with the water cycle is responsible for cleansing or filtering the water?
What is evaporation
400
What would a hawk be on an energy pyramid?
What is a tertiary or secondary consumer
500
What is shrubs rather than trees as dominant type of vegetation, average rainfall and climates, and much grass for animals to graze?
What is the prairie grasslands
500
What is the percentage of energy transferred from one level to another in the food chain?
What is less than 20 percent
500
What is the relationship between a flea and a little puppy dog?
What is parasitism
500
What is the only form of nitrogen that nonlegume plants can take in and use?
What is atmospheric nitrogen
500
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
A food chain shows the transfer from one organism to another, and a food web displays multiple feeding relationships in a community
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