Vocab
All the living things within an ecosystem
What is Biotic Factors?
A vast, flat, treeless Arctic region
What is a Tundra?
Food chains show this
What is the flow of energy from one organism to the next?
All the non-living things in an Ecosystem
What is Abiotic Factors?
A biome that forms due to the low level of rainfall it receives each year
What is a Desert?
Food chains form this shape
What is a line or linear?
A chain showing how energy passes from one organism to the next
A luxuriant forest found in wet tropical uplands and lowlands near the Equator
What is a Tropical Rain Forest?
Food chains involve these two basic types of organisms
What is a producer and a consumer?
A complex network of many interconnected food chains and feeding relationships
What is a Food Web?
Known as the "four season" forest, these biomes cover 25% of Earth's surface, and, are mostly what Maine's biome is.
What is a Temperate Forest?
This would happen to a food chain if one organism were to become extinct
Any close relationship between species
What is Symbiosis?
The sometimes swampy coniferous forest of high northern latitudes
What is a Taiga?
This happens when one thing in a food web, or ecosystem, is out of balance
What is affect the entire environment?