The number and variety of organisms found in a specific region.
What is biodiversity?
Carbon moves through an ecosystem when...
What is an organism dies and decomposes?
Biome that is cold, dry and treeless.
What is tundra?
Tapeworm and cat
What is parasitism?
Organism that cannot make its own food so it eats other organisms.
What is a consumer?
A simple model showing how energy moves from a producer to a consumer through feeding relationships.
What is a food chain?
The number/amount of an organism that an area can hold without losing resources.
What is carrying capacity?
An aquatic biome where nutrient levels and biodiversity is high along coastlines..
What is estuary?
Clownfish and sea anemone
What is mutualism?
All populations living in an ecosystem at the same time.
What is a community?
A group of organisms that have similar traits and are able to produce fertile offspring.
What is a species?
Three symbiotic relationships are
What is mutualism, commensalism and parasitism?
An aquatic biome that changes with the tides.
What is intertidal zone?
Tree and air plant
What is commensalism?
Changes in climate patterns over time
What is climate change?
Water that is not flowing down a hill is found here.
What are ponds and lakes?
Type of relationship between wolf and caribou.
What is predator/prey?
Highest level of biodiversity on earth.
What is tropical rain forest?
Sponge crab and sea sponge
What is commensalism?
Process in which a gas changes to a liquid.
What is condensation?
The ability of an ecosystem to maintain dynamic equilibrium even with significant disruptions.
A species that is not from the area and has no natural predator.
What is Non native species or Invasive species?
Highest level of biodiversity in aquatic biomes.
What is coral reef?
Cleaner shrimp and moray eel
What is mutualism?
Benefits that people obtain through their experiences with an ecosystem.
What is a cultural service?