Vocabulary
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
These organisms get a "troph-y" for making their own food.
What are Autotrophs?
A group of land ecosystems that share a similar climate and similar organisms.
What is a biome?
What is Biodiversity.
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.
What is a host?
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings.
What is an ecosystem?
These organisms are considered herbivores and occupy the second level of a food chain.
What is Primary (1o) Consumer?
This Biome is extremely cold and dry and can support a limited variety of plant life.
What is the tundra?
The term given to a species that plays a very important role in an ecosystem. The ecosystem would fall apart quickly if this species dissappeared.
What is a keystone species?
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is Commensalism?
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
These two aquatic ecosystems sometimes meet to form a third type of aquatic ecosystem, like the mouth of the Hudson River.
What are freshwater and marine (salt water) ecosystems.
Give two reasons biodiversity is important.
What are for economic reasons, medical reasons, scientific reasons, enviromental reasons?
This type of carnivore feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
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?
This type of tree will lose its leaves every autumn.
What is decidious?
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
This amount of energy is LOST as energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next.
What is 90%?
List 3 of the 6 major biomes according to the reading in the textbook.
What are the rain forest, desert, grassland, Deciduous forest, Boreal forest (Taiga), and Tundra?
A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other, producing offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is a species?