Vocabulary
Food Webs
Biomes
Biodiversity
Misc.
100
Large geographic areas with similar landscapes, weather, plants, and animals

What is a biome?

100

These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.

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

Consists of the plants, animals, and organisms that live and interact 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

The cycle of plants taking in carbon dioxide, water, and light from the sun, and producing glucose and oxygen.

What is photosynthesis?

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.
300
The two reasons biodiversity is important.
What are for economic reasons, medical reasons, scientific reasons, enviromental reasons?
300
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
400

An organism that breaks down wases and dead organisms.

What is a decomposer?

400

Shows the flow of energy as plants produce energy and consumers eat their food.

What is an energy pyramid?

400
The name given to trees that lose their leaves during the winter.
What is decidious?
400
These animals have not changed for thousands of years.
What are living fossils?
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. Usually written on one line.
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 the reading in the textbook.
What are the rain forest, desert, grassland, deciduous forest, boreal forest, or tundra?
500
This group of species are very sensitive to environmental changes. Usually they are the first to be hurt due to pollution.
What are indicator species?
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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