Vocabulary
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.
What are Plants/Autotrophs/Producers?
Name one renewable energy source that does not produce greenhouse gases.
What is solar energy?
The variety of different organisms living in a certain area
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. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary consumers?
Type of a gas which is the primary contributor to global warming
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)? /other green house gases like CO, NO2, NO, CH4
Type of ecosystem is known to have the highest biodiversity on Earth, example Amazon rainforest
What is the tropical rainforest?
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
Term that describes the position of an organism in a food chain
What is a trophic level?
The process by which fertile land becomes desert, often due to overuse
What is desertification?
non-native organisms that are introduced to an ecosystem, either intentionally or accidentally, where they cause harm
What are invasive species?
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
An organism that breaks down wastes and dad 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 energy pyramid?
What is the term for harmful substances added to the air, water, or soil?
What is pollution?
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?
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
energy that is derived from natural sources or processes that are replenished on a human timescale.
What renewable energy?
is a region that is rich in species diversity, including many endemic species (species found nowhere else in the world), but is also significantly threatened by human activities.
What is "Biodiversity Hotspots"?
A group of organism that are physically similar and can mate wit each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is a species?