Biomes & Habitats
This biome is very hot, humid, and has high rainfall.
What is tropical rainforest?
In an energy pyramid, these organisms are at the bottom and have the most energy.
What is producer?
An animal that eats only plants is known as this.
What is a Herbivore?
These are the nonliving parts of an environment, like light and soil.
What is Abiotic Factors?
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction?
What is a Host?
This dry biome contains organisms like cacti and rattlesnakes.
What is Desert?
These organisms (like fungi) break down dead material and recycle nutrients.
What is decomposer?
Overlapping food chains in an ecosystem make up this.
This is a group of the same species (like red foxes) living in one forest.
What is Population?
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms?
What is a Scavenger?
This extremely cold biome features a layer of permanently frozen soil.
What is Tundra?
In a pond ecosystem, this is a major abiotic factor that provides energy?
What is the SUN?
This symbiotic relationship occurs when one organism benefits and the other is harmed.
What is Parasitism? (Deer and Ticks)
This is a system of living organisms interacting with their environment.
What is Ecosystem?
What is Prey?
On Long Island, we live in this specific type of forest biome?
What is Deciduous Forest?
Using a food web, if you eat a grasshopper, you are acting as this type of consumer. (2 correct answers).
What is Secondary Consumer or Carnivore?
This type of relationship exists when both organisms benefit, like a "mutual" agreement.
What is Mutualism?
This term describes a group of giraffes living together in a particular area.
What is Population?
Study of the interactions of living things and their environment?
What is ecology?
This biome is home to jaguars, anacondas, and gorillas.
What is the Rainforest?
This sequence shows the correct flow of energy: Plants - Herbivore - Predator.
What is Food Chain? (Grass, Caterpillar, Bird)
Raccoons eat rabbits, seeds, and berries, making them this type of consumer.
What is Omnivore?
Includes all the biotic factors and abiotic factors interacting in the environment.
What is Ecosystem?
Includes all of the area in which life is found on Earth?
What is the Biosphere?