a large region characterized by a specific type of climate and certain types of plants and animal communities.
What is a biome?
100
Is the atmosphere the thinest or thickest?
thinest
100
a diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms between organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
100
A ______ _______ is a diagram that shows an ecosystems loss of energy.energy pyramid
what is a energy pyramid?
100
the transfer of energy as electromagnetic waves
What is radiation?
200
sunlight
soil
rain
temperature
What are the 4 main abiotic factors?
200
a mixture of gasses that surrounds Earth and made mostly of gas nutrients.
What is atmosphere?
200
a food web shows various types of organisms while a food chain shows the pathways of certain organisms
how is a food web and food chain different?
200
a organism that only eats plants is called a ________.
what is a herbivore?
200
the movement of matter due to differences in density; the transfer of energy due to the movement of matter
What is convection?
300
Is a biome LARGE or small region?
what is LARGE?
300
the _______ is mostly made up of nitrogen
What is the atmosphere mostly made of?
300
how is a food chain and food web alike?
they both show what a organism[s] eats.
300
a organism that eat animals
What is a carnivore?
300
the transfer of energy as heat through a material
What is conduction?
400
a region that has little or no plant life and has long periods without rain.
found in hot climates
extreme temperatures
What is a desert?
400
"The atmosphere keeps us warm and safe from _______."
What is the word that belongs in the blank?
what is Meteors?
400
grass and plants are the main ________.
what is the main producer in food webs?
400
a organism that eats both meat and plants
What is a omnivore?
400
what does each heat transfer do?
radiation has to do with electromagnetic waves, convection has to do with the transfer of energy due to the movement of matter and conduction is the transfer of energy as heat through a material
500
a tree less plain [flat area] found in the arctic in the Anctarctic or on the top of mountains and that has very low winter temperatures and short cool summmers
What is a tundra?
500
name the 4 layers or the atmosphere
What is Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere and Thermosphere?
500
After a secondary consumer comes a _______?
what is a tertiary consumer?
500
1 worms
2 fungi
3 bacteria are all ____
what is a decomposer?
500
How are convection, radiation, and conduction alike?