Vocabulary
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.
What are Plants?
This difference between abiotic and biotic factors is this.
What is abiotic= non-living, biotic= living
This is a population.
What is a group of organisms of the same species?
What are 2 limiting factors in an environment?
Food/Water and Weather
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
Autotrophs
What is another name for primary producers?
What is the difference between a food chain and food web?
This level contains both biotic and abiotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
What is the difference between immigration and emigration?
Immigration=moving into an environment
Emigration=moving out of an environment
A large area or geographical region with distinct plant and animal groups adapted to that environment.
What is a biome?
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They get the least amount of sun's energy
What are tertiary consumers?
This is the third member of a food chain (usually an omnivore).
What is the secondary consumer?
What is a direct observation?
counting each member of a population
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
What is an energy pyramid?
What are the 3 types of consumers?
Carnivore, Omnivore, Herbivore
Plants make their own food (autotrophs) from carbon dioxide, water, and energy from sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
What is a indirect observation?
observing a habitat that an organism lives in to understand it
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually goes in one direction.
What is a food chain?
The sun
What is the source of all energy?
What is a carrying capacity?
The largest amount of organisms an environment can support
A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is a species?
What is the order of living things! (you can do it from the beginning beginning or from population)
atom, molecule, organelle, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere