Vocabulary
Food Webs
Biomes
Biodiversity
Misc.
100

At the bottom of the pyramid organisms make their own food

What is autotroph

100

These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.

What are plants (or autotrophs) ?

100
A group of land ecosysems with similiar climates and orgaisms.
What is a biome?
100
The definition of biodiversity is _____________________.
What is the variety of different organisms living in a certain area?
100
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.
What is a host?
200
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?
200

These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.

What is primary?

200
The biome you would be in if you were standing on a bitterly cold, dry plain with only a few, short plants scattered aournd.
What is the tundra?
200

The unique job or role of an organism in its ecosystem

What is a niche?

200
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
300
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
300
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
300

The two major types of water ecosystems.

What are freshwater and marine/ocean.

300

This type of relationship benefits both species 

What is a (mutualism)symbiotic relationship?

300
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
400

An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.

What is a decomposer?

400
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?
400

The name given to trees that lose their leaves during the winter.

What is decidious?

400

These organisms are the world's recyclers

What are decomposers?

400
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
500

A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. 

What is a food chain/web?

500
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 90%?
500

List 3 of the 6 major biomes according to the reading in the textbook.

What are the rain forest, desert, grassland, deciduous forest, taiga (boreal forest), or tundra?

500

This happened to the DoDo bird

What is extinct?

500

A group of organisms that are physically similar, can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.

What is a species?

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