A biome that contains salt water, and covers 70% of the plant with one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world.
What is the marine/ocean biome?
A biome with less than 10 inches of rainfall per year. It has extreme temperatures; hot during the day and cold at night.
What is a desert biome?
This would happen if insects were removed from the food web.
What is Water bird population would decrease?
What is small plants population would increase?
The living parts of an ecosystem
What are biotic factors?
All the individuals of the same kind, living in the same environment.
What is a population?
A biome that contains little to no salt. Ex. Pond, lake, or creek.
What is a freshwater biome?
A biome where freshwater and salt water mix, AKA the nursery of the aquatic biomes.
What is an estuary biome?
What is a salt marsh biome?
What animals are predators of the rat?
What is an eagle?
What is a snake?
What is a wolf?
The non-living parts of an ecosystem
What are abiotic factors?
An organism that makes its own food. Ex. Grass, trees, flowers, algae, etc.
What is a producer?
An underwater ecosystem made up of coral polyps, which are tiny animals that live in groups and stick to a hard surface.
What is a coral reef biome?
A biome with lots of rainfall, sunlight, high temperatures, and trees.
What is the rainforest biome?
Which organism(s) in this food chain are considered CONSUMERS?
What is a grasshopper?
What is a frog?
What is a snake?
What is a hawk?
What is an estuary or salt marsh?
Animals depending on one another to survive.
What is symbiosis?
A biome where water covers or saturates the soil for some or all of the year, and where the water can be fresh, salt, or somewhere in between.
What is a wetland biome?
A biome whose main plants are grasses. A large, open area of land with very few trees. AKA a prairie.
What is a grassland biome?
What is a savannah biome?
Who is the PRIMARY CONSUMER in this food pyramid?
What is a grasshopper?
A large area on Earth with a specific climate and type of living things
What is a biome?
What is a decomposer?
A biome that is characterized by flowing fresh water. We have a very famous one near us!
What is a river biome?
What is the Cape Fear River?
What is a taiga biome?
What is the percentage of energy/nutrients passed from one level to the next?
What is 10 percent?
What is 90% lost?
A job or role that an organism plays in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
A living thing that can't make its own food, so it has to eat other plants or animals to get the energy it needs to survive.
What is a consumer?