An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
100
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.
What is autotrophs or producers?
100
Ecosystems that are defined by the types of animals, plants, locations, and climates are called this.
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 in a food web or food chain.
What is primary or 1st level?
200
The biome you would be in if you were standing in a bitterly cold, dry plain with only a few, short plants scattered around.
What is the tundra?
200
The role a species play within its community.
What is a niche?
200
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism is known as this.
What is the prey?
300
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
300
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary or 3rd level consumers?
300
The two major types of aquatic 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 wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
400
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is distributed between multiple organisms. Usually there is a large amount of organisms at the base and one at the top.
What is an energy pyramid?
400
The name of the biome that has all four seasons (spring, summer, winter, and fall) is called this.
What is deciduous forest?
400
Resources that are scarce and affects population size is known as this.
What is limiting factors?
400
The biomes with very little annual precipitation.
What is the desert and tundra?
500
A drawing showing one organism eating another and obtains energy. Usually written vertically or horizontally.
What is a food chain?
500
The percentage of energy is ____________ as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is "lost?"
500
List 4 of the major biomes according to the reading in the textbook.
What are the rain forest, desert, grassland, deciduous forest, taiga, or tundra?
500
The largest population that a community can support is known as this.
What is carrying capacity?
500
A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring is known as this.