Definitions
A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area
What is a population?
Anything that can affect an organism
What is environment?
The biome that covers the largest area of any type of biome
What is Taiga?
The two important factors of biomes that determine which organisms can live there
What are climate and soil?
Definition of main idea of a passage
What is what the reading selection is about?
A group of populations that living together in a particular area
What is a community?
A community of organisms living together along with the nonliving parts of the environment
What is an ecosystem?
The biome located halfway between the Arctic and the equator
What is Deciduous Forest?
What adapts in order for plants to survive in a location
What are the roots?
What the biosphere covers (in kilometers)
What is 10 kilometers above Earth's and 10 kilometers below the ocean?
Large group of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
What is a biome?
The nonliving parts of an ecosystem
What is abiotic factor?
The biome that has temperatures as low as -40 degrees Celcius during winter and 20 centimeters of rain a year
What is Tundra?
Trees in which biome can grow 75 meters tall
What is Tropical Rain Forest?
The two Greek words ecology comes from
What is oikos and logos?
The living components in an ecosystem
What is a biotic factor?
What is a biosphere?
The biome that receives about 200 centimeters of rain a year and is located at the equator
What is Tropical Rain Forest?
The biome that has some of the most fertile soil on Earth
What is Grassland?
Which biome receives about 60 centimeters of rain in a year?
What is Grassland?
A scientist that studies the interactions of living things
What is an ecologist?
The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment
What is ecology?
The biome that receivesless than 25 centimeters of rain a year
What is Desert?
A layer of permanently frozen soil just beneath the surface
What is permafrost?
What is Desert?