Nature Communities
There are many different plants, animals, organisms, and other things that are in an area. What is the word for all living and nonliving things in an area?
ecosystem
What word is used to describe ALL the populations in an area?
community
This biome is very warm, very wet, and has more species than ANY other biome!
tropical rainforest
What is a producer?
an organism that makes its own food for energy
niche
What is the term for when organisms compete over space, water, light, food, or mates in order to survive?
competition
This biome receives less than 25 centimeters of rain for the entire year! The plants have large root systems that are near the ground's surface, and sometimes the temperatures can be extreme.
desert
What is a consumer?
an organism that cannot make its own food and has to eat other organisms for energy
What is the word for the place that an organism lives?
In nature, some organisms have a relationship with an organism of a different species. What is the name for a long-term relationship between different species, where one species is always helped?
symbiosis
This biome is like a busy city and can only grow in shallow, warm waters. It contains an organism that looks like a plant, but is actually an animal!
coral reef
What are the four limiting factors in an ecosystem?
What is the word used to describe a group of organisms that are the same species who all live in an area at the same time?
population
How are parasites and hosts related? How are parasites and hosts different?
parasites live off of hosts
hosts are harmed by parasites, but parasites are not harmed by their host
This biome is covered in many different types of grasses. It is difficult for trees to grow in this biome, but there are animals such as bison, antelope, and prairie dogs.
grassland
What are the four different kinds of consumers?
herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers
Certain ecosystems have similar characteristics, such as climate and organisms. What is the name of a large ecosystem that usually has the same climate and organisms?
biome
In symbiosis, one species is always helped. What are the three things that might happen with the other species?
helped, harmed, or not affected
This biome is VERY cold and is usually found in the most northern parts of the world. The plants are very small in this biome due to the frozen ground.
tundra
A food chain shows how energy moves throughout different organisms. Create a food chain using the following: snake, rabbit, hawk, sun, bacteria, flower
SUN --> FLOWER --> RABBIT --> SNAKE --> HAWK --> BACTERIA