A large scale ecosystem whose climate, plants, and animals make it different from other places. Examples are tropical rain forest, tundra, desert, grassland, taiga, and deciduous forest.
What is a biome?
100
This is a pollution that is caused from the burning of fossil fuels.
What is acid rain?
100
This word means non-living.
What is abiotic?
200
This is the process by which plants make food using energy from the sun.
What is photosynthesis?
200
I am an organism that feeds on the bodies of dead animals.
What is a scavenger?
200
A biome found near the equator that recieves strong sunlight and have a warm, wet climate throughout the year; half of all the different plants on Earth are found here.
What is a tropical rain forest?
200
These are the three most common pollutants on the earth.
What are acid rain, fertilizer, and salt?
200
This word means living.
What is biotic?
300
All of the oak trees in an area are also called this.
What is a population?
300
I am a consumer that breaks down the tissues of dead organisms using the nutrients from the dead tissue as food. I also return nutrients to the environment.
What is a decomposer?
300
A biome where there are moderate temperatures and monderate amounts of rainfall throughout the year; forests are famous for their autumn leaves.
What is a deciduous forest?
300
This pollution causes an over growth of plants in the water ways depriving water organisms of oxygen.
What is fertilizer?
300
This word means animals that eat both plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
400
This is an organism that makes it's own food, or a plant.
What is a producer?
400
I am at the top of the food chain.
What is a predator or carnivore?
400
This is a biome where there are extreme temperatures and very little water. There is very little plant growth here.
What is a desert?
400
This pollutant is used to keep roads ice free in the winter and causes new plants to die.
What is salt?
400
A physical place where an organism lives?
What is a habitat?
500
I am the producer in the food chain.
What is a plant?
500
All of the populations of organisms living together in an environment.
What is a community?
500
This is a place where a freshwater river empties into an ocean creating the most productive ecosystem on Earth. Organisms living here must be able to adapt to both fresh and salt water.
What is an estuary?
500
This pollutant reaches the ecosystems through rain.