Vocabulary
Food Webs
Biomes
Biodiversity
Misc.
100

An environment that provides the things an organism neds to live, grow, and reproduce. (Where an organism lives.)

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 keystone 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
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 (saltwater).

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 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

Define competition in ecological terms. 

What is it when two organisms of the same or different species attempt to use an ecological resource in the same place at the same time?

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 TRANSFERRED as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?

What is 10%?

500

List 3 of the 6 major biomes according to the reading in the textbook. (You have 10 seconds to look it up!)

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

500

What is the thing that involves both the place where an organism lives and the roles that an organism has in its habitat. 

What is an ecological niche?

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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