Vocabulary
Food Webs
Biomes
Biodiversity
Misc.
100
An environment that provides the things an organism neds to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
100
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthese.
What are Plants?
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 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 keyston species?
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

Typically representing the upper level of a tropic pyramid, these consumers are few and far between due to the thinness of energy caused by the rule of 10%

What are tertiary/quaternary consumers?

300

The two major types of water ecosystems.

What are freshwater and marine.

300

A variety (3+) ways that biodiversity is important.

What are for economic reasons, medical reasons, scientific reasons, enviromental reasons?

300

A carnivore that feeds on the bodies/scraps of dead organisms.

What is a scavenger/detritovore?

400
An organism that breaks down wases and dad 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

The role (or job) that an organisms plays within an ecosystem. This can be broad (ie. herbivore), or specific (ie. an saptivorious, direct Mutualist symbiote of an Acadia tree - Acadia Ant)

What is a niche?

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

A set of interactions describing one path that energy can flow in an ecosystem. All present in an ecosystem represents a food web.

What is a food chain?

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 our CK-12 Textbook

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

500

The practice of planting only one species of producer in an agricultural operation. These systems can be very susceptible to disease, with all individuals often being exact clones within the same farm (or region). 

What is monoculture?

500
A group of organiss that are physically similar and can mate wit each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is a species?
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