Biomes
Ecosystems
Vocabulary
Energy Pyramids
Food Chains & Food Webs
100
This biome is hot half the year and cold half the year
What is taiga?
100
These are the ecosystems recyclers
What are decomposers?
100
The struggle among organisms for food, space, and other necessary requirements
What is competition?
100
These organisms are found at the bottom of an energy pyramid
What are producers?
100
This organism consumed prey
What is a predator?
200
This biome has more species of animals than any other biome
What is rainforest?
200
In an ecosystem, these eat other organisms to get energy
What are consumers?
200
The job an organism has in an ecosystem
What is niche?
200
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that flows through each level of a food chain
What is an energy pyramid?
200
This type of organism has the most arrows pointing away from it in a food web
What is a producer?
300
200 years ago the pioneers called this biome a sea of grass
What is grassland?
300
In an ecosystem, these make their own food
What are producers?
300
The natural environment of an organism
What is a habitat?
300
These organisms are found at the upper levels of a food pyramid
What are consumers?
300
This shows how energy passes directly from organism to organism
What is a food chain?
400
This biome is found in the earth's northern areas
What is the tundra?
400
These live and grow in ecosystems where their needs are met
What are organisms?
400
All the living and nonliving things in an area
What is an ecosystem?
400
This is the level in an energy pyramid where there is less energy
What are the higher levels?
400
This is where the most arrows point to in a food web
What is the predator at the top of the ecosystem?
500
This biome is found in northern Africa, southwest Asia, and western Australia
What is desert?
500
Water, soil, air, temperature, and sunlight
What are the nonliving parts of an ecosystem?
500
A relationship between organisms, both helpful and harmful
What is symbiosis?
500
This is how the energy of life activities is released
What is heat?
500
A complete picture showing how matter and energy flow through an ecosystem
What is a food web?
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