Levels of organization
What is an organism?
What is an autotroph?
An organism that uses sunlight or chemicals to make organic compounds (sugar) from inorganic compounds (carbon dioxide and water).
What is a food chain?
What is a habitat?
The physical place or area where an organism lives
What is a tropical rainforest?
A biome characterized by a warm climate and large amounts of rain and sunlight
What is a population?
A group of the same species in the same area at the same time.
What is a heterotroph?
An organism that must consume other plants or animals to obtain energy
What is a food web?
What is a niche?
The ROLE of an organism in its environment
What is a desert?
A biome that receives less than 25cm of rainfall, has warm temperatures during the day and cold temperatures at night, and nutrient-poor soil
What is a community?
All of the living things in the same area
What is a herbivore?
An organism that gains energy by eating only plants
What is a trophic level?
An organism's feeding level is an ecosystem based on its nutritional source
What is mutualism?
A relationship in which two or more organisms live together and both organisms benefit
What is a deciduous forest?
What is an ecosystem?
All of the living species and the nonliving environment
What is a carnivore?
An organism that gains energy by eating only animals
What is an energy pyramid?
A diagram that demonstrates the amount of energy in each trophic level
What is parasitism?
A relationship in which one organism lives in or on another organism and harms it by taking nutrients from it.
What is a taiga?
A biome characterized by coniferous trees, long, cold winters, and summers that allow the ground to thaw.
What is a biome?
An area on land that shares a similar climate, soil condition, and dominant type of vegetation. Includes living species, nonliving environment, and the weather
What is an omnivore?
An organism that gains energy by eating both plants and animals
What is a biomass pyramid?
A diagram that demonstrates the amount of each organism in a trophic level
What is commensalism?
A relationship in which one organism benefits from another organism and that organism is neither harmed nor helped
What is a tundra?
A biome characterized by low growing vegetation and a layer of permafrost in the subsoil