Living things within an ecosystem
What are Biotic Factors?
A biome that has long, cold winters
What is a Tundra?
The flow of energy from one organism to the next
What is a Food Chain?
What is an Omnivore?
Nonliving things in an ecosystem
What are Abiotic Factors?
A biome that is often dry, very hot, and forms near the Equator
What is a Desert?
A complex network of many connected food chains
What is a Food Web?
What is an Ecosystem?
An organism that consumes other dead organisms, and returns their nutrients to the soil
What are Decomposers?
A biome that is often very humid, hot, and also forms near the Equator (known for having large amounts of biodiversity)
What is a Tropical Rainforest?
Using the image of a desert biome food web, the arrows from one organism to the next show the transfer of this
What is Energy?
At the start of a food web or food chain, the energy comes from here
What is the Sun?
A place where an organism can get food, shelter, and the climate that it needs to survive
What is a Habitat?
The two main categories of biomes
What are Aquatic and Terrestrial Biomes?
Food webs contain these three types of organisms
What are Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers?
The two main types of aquatic biomes
What are Freshwater and Marine Biomes?
Large areas with similar climate and ecosystems
What is a Biome?
The biome in Maine
What is a Deciduous or Temperate Forest Biome?
If the snake in this food web went extinct, it would have an impact on these organisms.
What are the Hawk, Frog, Mouse, and Bird?
(The Hawk would not be able to eat the snake)
(The Frog, Mouse, and Bird would not be eaten by the snake)
Two types of matter being cycled in a food web or food chain
What are Glucose, Carbon Dioxide, Oxygen, Water?