Vocabulary
All About Ecosystems
Types of Biomes and Ecosystems
How Organisms Interact
Movement of Energy
100
all the living and nonliving things in an area
What is an ecosystem?
100
food, water, shelter, sunlight, temperature, space, air, reproduction
What is all the parts of an ecosystem?
100
large root systems
What is how desert plants survive?
100
competition
What is what organisms do to meet their needs of the limiting factors in their area?
100
eating plants or animals
What is how an animal gets its energy?
200
a group of organisms of one species that live in an area
What is a population?
200
a balance
What is the living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem working together?
200
resting in the day and hunting at night
What is how desert animals survive?
200
living together
What is symbiosis?
200
carnivores, herbivores, omnivores
What is types of eaters?
300
all the populations in an area
What is a community?
300
why populations decrease
What is a change in a habitat?
300
an estuary
What is where freshwater flows into an ocean?
300
competition only happens between members of similar species, symbiosis occurs between different species
What is the difference between competition and symbiosis?
300
return matter back to the ground
What are decomposers?
400
a role that an organism has in an ecosystem
What is a niche?
400
hibernation, reproduction, storing food, changing colors
What is how animals behave in relationship to a change in seasons?
400
coral
What is animals that live in shallow water because they need the sunlight?
400
energy changes into food for energy
What is the niche of a producer?
400
nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and oxygen
What are gases given off during decomposition?
500
the place an organism lives
What is a habitat?
500
leaves fall, change color
What is one way trees behave in relationship to winter temperatures?
500
types of water
What are salty or fresh, rate of water flow, temperature, and depth?
500
have the most amount of energy in an ecosystem
What are producers?
500
a diagram that shows the amounts of energy that flow through each level of a food chain
What is an energy pyramid?
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