Biomes
Biotic and Abiotic Factors
Food Chain and Food Web
Energy Pyramid
Vocabulary
100
a large group of ecosystems that have similar characteristics
Biome
100
living things
Biotic
100
A living thing that cannot make its own food and get their energy by eating food.
Consumer
100
This part of the food pyramid gets their energy from the sun, and makes its own food from raw materials and energy.
Producer
100
all the living and nonliving things that interact with one another in a given area
Ecosystem
200
This biome is very rainy and hot. Animals and plants that live in this biome include: sloths, monkeys, boa constrictors, orchids, rubbers trees, etc.
Rain Forest
200
Non-living
Abiotic
200
a living thing that gets its energy by breaking down dead plants and animals. Fungi and bacteria are the most common.
Decomposer
200
A __________ shows how much energy is available for producers and consumers.
Food Chain
200
group of living things of different species found in an ecosystem
Community
300
Earth's largest biome where trees are few and far between and include prairies and savannas.
Grasslands
300
three examples of abiotic factors
answers vary (must be non-living)
300
Name an example of a producer and consumer
all animals are consumers, the plants are producers
300
Name the produces in all three food chains.
Corn, carrots and grass
300
all the members of the same type of organism living in an ecosystem
Population
400
These five bodies of water are examples of freshwater biomes.
streams, rivers, ponds, lakes and wetlands
400
Can something dead be biotic?
Yes
400
A fish that eats algae is a (first, second or third level) consumer.
First
400
Name the top predator an all three food chains.
Owl, Lion and Eagle
400
normal pattern of weather that occurs in an area over a long period of time
Climate
500
These are the three zones of the marine biome
Intertidal zone, Near-shore zone, and Open ocean zone
500
Two examples of:
Biotic and abiotic factors in a Temperate Forest
answer may vary
500
The difference between a food chain and a food web
The food chain shows the flow of energy from one organism to another. A food web shows overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
500
__________ have the largest populations because they have the most energy available to them.
Producers
500
An area where an organism lives, grows and develops.
Habitat