You eat what?
Aquatic Biomes
Biotic or Abiotic
Energy
Terrestrial Biomes
100

Mushrooms, bacteria, and worms are best classified as this in a terrestrial biome.

What are decomposers?

100

This aquatic biome has the highest salinity (salt level in the water).

What is the marine biome?

100

A non-living factor in an ecosystem.

What is abiotic?

100

The process producers use to create food.

What is photosynthesis?

100

A biome that is known for bison, prairie dogs  and grasshoppers, fertile soil and tall grass.

What is a grassland?

200

Organisms that only eat producers (plants).

What are herbivores?

200

This aquatic biome is made up of ponds, lakes, streams and rivers.

What is a freshwater biome?

200

A living factor in an ecosystem.

What is biotic?

200

The arrows in a food chain or food web represent this.

What is energy?

200
Located near the equator, it receives large amounts of precipitation and has many species of flora and fauna.

What is the tropical rainforest?

300

Grass, trees and phytoplankton are organisms that create their own food.

What are producers

300

This aquatic biome is found where a river meets the ocean.

What is an estuary?

300

Sun, wind, temperature and rain are examples.

What are abiotic?

300

The green substance in plants and producers that lets them make food.

What is chlorophyll?

300

Located close to the North Pole, this biome has many coniferous trees, short warm summers and long cold winters.

What is the Taiga or Boreal Forest?

400

Tigers, snakes and hawks are classified as these.

What are carnivores?

400

The term for water that is a mix of freshwater and saltwater.

What is brackish?

400

The interactions between biotic and abiotic factors.

What is an ecosystem?

400
Plants/producers use these three things to make glucose.

What are carbon dioxide, water and sunlight?

400
The coldest of all land biomes, it has no trees and permafrost.
What is the tundra?
500

In a grassland ecosystem, mice and rabbits eat plants. Hawks eat mice and rabbits. If a  disease kills many of the rabbits in the grassland. This would happen to the population of hawks.

What would be a decrease in the hawk population?
500

Changed in an estuary by heavy rainfall, which will cause more freshwater to flow down rivers into the estuary and then the ocean. 

What is salinity?

500
Decreases as you ascend (go up) the trophic levels.

What is energy?

500

Besides energy, producers also create this substance that is vitally important for humans and life on Earth.

What is oxygen?

500

A biome with four seasons, deciduous trees and fertile soil.  

What is a temperate deciduous forest?

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