Of the following, these TWO things determine the conditions of a biome:
Wind,
Temperature,
Precipitation,
Soil Type,
Longitude
What is Temperature and Precipitation?
100
In the Meadow Food Web, which animal gets its energy directly from plants and animals?
What is the fox?
100
These organisms are always at the bottom of a food chain or web.
What are producers?
100
This is a simple way of showing how energy passes from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
200
Grass
What is a producer?
200
Organisms that are adapted to a hot, wet climate would thrive in this terrestrial biome:
A. Tundra
B. Desert
C. Estuary
D. Tropical Rain Forest
What is D. Tropical Rain Forest?
200
In the Meadow food web, list one producer
What is grass or berries?
200
These are the two types of ecological succession
What is primary and secondary
200
These are organisms that obtain energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms
What is a decomposer?
300
Fungi living on an old tree stump
What is decomposer?
300
Organisms that are best adapted to live in these conditions would live in a tundra
A. Cold Temperatures
B. High Altitudes
C. Wet Conditions
D. Sunny Conditions
What is A. Cold Temperatures?
300
According to the pyramid, this is the number of grasses need to provide the energy to feed the fox.
What is 3000?
300
An example of this type of succession is lichen beginning to live on a bare rock
What is primary succession?
300
This is a series of overlapping food chains that exist in an ecosystem
What is a food web?
400
Omnivores
What is consumers?
400
Look at the image of the biome. These animals would be best supported by this biome:
A. Aquatic Animals
B. Tree-dwelling animals
C. Estuary Animals
D. Grazing Animals
What is D. Grazing Animals?
400
This would most likely happen if frogs were removed from the food web:
A.. A decrease in spiders
B. An increase in insects
C. An increase in the grass population
D. A decrease in foxes and owls
What is B. An increase in insects?
400
This organism would best fit into the first link of the given food chain
A. Tree
B. Beetle
C. Coyote
D. Earthworm
What is A. Tree?
400
This is a major ecological community
What is a biome?
500
Algae
What is producers?
500
This aquatic biome includes inland ponds, lakes, and rivers where the water contains very little salt
What is fresh water?
500
This organism provides energy for all other organisms in the ecosystem
What is the algae?
500
This is the type of succession took place after the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980.
What is secondary succession?
500
This is the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit