Vocabulary
Terrestrial Ecosystems
Aquatic Ecosystems
Food Webs and Food Chains
Relationships
100
Living thing made up of one or more cells and able to carry on the activities of life.
What is an organism?
100
Hot, humid, and rainy all year long.
What is a tropical rainforest?
100
Two main types of aquatic ecosystems.
What are fresh water and salt water?
100
Single path showing flow of energy in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
100
Relationship between a fox and rabbit.
What is predator - prey?
200
All the living and nonliving things in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
200
Dryest of all the terrestrial ecosystems.
What is a desert?
200
Salt water ecocsystem with sunlight and colorful animals that attract large predators.
What is a coral reef?
200
Multiple food chains put together.
What is a food web?
200
Role of the hawk in it's relationship with a snake.
What is a predator?
300
A group of organisms of one species that live in an area at one time.
What is a population?
300
These types of trees grow in a taiga.
What are pine trees (coniferous)?
300
Has a mixture of fresh water and salt water.
What is an estuary?
300
Role of the grass in this food chain.
What is a producer?
300
Role of the tick that lives on a dog.
What is a parasite?
400
The nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
What are abiotic factors?
400
Cold all year with little rain and small plants and grasses.
What is a tundra?
400
With no sunlight this ecosystem is based on bacteria and dead plants that float down from above.
What is the deep ocean?
400
The role of the hawk in this ecosystem.
What is a consumer? (carnivore)
400
Role of the tree that a mistletoe plant grows on.
What is a host?
500
The different populations in an area.
What is a community?
500
The three types of wetlands.
What are marshes, swamps, and bogs?
500
Difference between lakes and ponds?
What are depth and size? (Lakes are larger and deeper than ponds.)
500
Role of mushrooms, bacteria, and worms in a food web.
What are decomposers?
500
An example is kudzu, brought to the United States from where it grows naturally in Japan.
What is an invasive species?