Biomes
Ecosystem Structure
Cycles in Ecosystem
Vocabulary Terms
Roles of Living Things
100
This biome contains lions, cheetahs, wildebeasts, and zebras.
What is the savannah?
100
food web
What is all of the food chains in an ecosystem?
100
Legumes have bacteria on their roots that help to convert this element into a form other organisms can use.
What is nitrogen.
100
The variety of species in an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
100
The role of an organism in the ecosystem.
What is niche?
200
Grassland that has short bunches of grass and gets less than 50cm of rain each year.
What is steppe?
200
geographical range
What is the term for the total area in which a species can live?
200
The evaporation of water from the leaves of plants.
What is transpiration?
200
Area that is claimed as living space by an individual animal or group of animals.
What is territory?
200
Promotes greater niche diversity in its habitat by controlling prey populations.
What is a keystone predator?
300
Grassland characterized by rolling hills, plains, and sod-forming grasses.
What is praries?
300
a producer
What kind of organism is at the bottom level of all food chains?
300
The sequence of communities forming in an originally lifeless habitat without any soil.
What is primary succession?
300
The increasing concentration of a pollutant in organisms at higher trophic levels in a food web.
What is biological magnification?
300
A relationship in which two species live closely together.
What is symbiosis?
400
Trees that are younger and smaller than those in the rainforest canopy.
What is understory?
400
symbiosis
What term describes a close relationship between two species in an ecosystem?
400
Where most of Earth's carbon is stored.
What is rocks?
400
The total amount of organic matter present in a trophic level.
What is biomass?
400
Two species independently develop similar adaptations to similar niches.
What is convergent evolution?
500
Small particles that settle to the bottom of bodies of water in aquatic biomes.
What is sediments?
500
population
What is the term that describes all organisms of the same species in an area?
500
Photosynthesis and respiration could not occur without this element that is present in all living organisms.
What is carbon?
500
A relationship between species or organisms where one species benefits and the other does not get benefit but isn't harmed.
What is commensalism?
500
Producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers
What are the levels of an energy pyramid?
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