Biomes
A biome that receives less than 10 inches of precipitation a year.
What is a desert?
Every food chain or food web gets energy from this.
What is the sun?
This group of organisms is the largest in the energy pyramid.
What are producers?
Abiotic factors that organisms need to live.
What are air, water, and shelter?
Animals that only consume other animals.
What is a carnivore?
Thick fur of caribou, elk, moose, and deer is an adaptation in which biome?
What is the taiga?
In a food chain/web, an owl, a mouse, and a snake would be called what?
What is a consumer?
This is lost in every layer of the energy pyramid.
What is energy?
Biotic factors needed for plants to complete photosynthesis.
What is air, water, and sunlight?
Animals that consume only plants.
What is an herbivore?
Contains a layer of permanently frozen soil called the permafrost.
What is the tundra?
In a food chain, plants are called these.
What is a producer?
Deciduous trees do this every year.
What is shed/lose their leaves?
Populations are affected by migration.
What is a biotic factor?
The process of plants making their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
Biome with few trees and little rainfall. (Africa)
What is a grassland?
In a food chain/web an organism at the top that isn't prey for another organism is called what?
What is an apex predator?
When an animal gets use to its surrounding and environment in order to survive. (polar bear having white fur)
Climate in a particular biome.
What is an abiotic factor?
Organisms that get their energy from dead or decaying organisms.
What is a decomposer?
A biome where trees shed their leaves in the fall.
What is a deciduous forest?
The organism that consumes plants only in a food chain.
What is a primary consumer?
The part of the earth where all living things are found.
What is the biosphere?
Organisms competing for resources in their environment.
What is a biotic factor?
An organism that harms another in a symbiotic relationship.
What is a parasite?