Everything is Connected
Living Things Need Energy
Food Chains and Food Webs
The Earth's Land Biomes
More about Biomes
100
The part of the environment that consists of nonliving elements such as water, soil, light, and temperate
What is abiotic
100
These organisms use sunlight to make food.
What are producers?
100
A diagram that shows how energy in food flows from one organism to another.
What is the food chain?
100
a large area characterized by its climate and the plants and animals that live in the area
What is a biome?
100
A grassland that often has scattered trees and that is found in tropical and subtropical areas where seasonal rains, fires, and drought happen.
What is a savannah?
200
The study of the interactions of organisms with one another and with their environment
What is ecology?
200
The process by which producers use sunlight to make energy.
What is photosynthesis?
200
A diagram that shows the feeding relationship between organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
200
Comes from a Latin word that means "to fall off."
What is deciduous?
200
Biomes that are very dry and hot.
What is a desert?
300
A community of organisms and their abiotic environment.
What is an ecosystem.
300
Organisms that eat other organisms.
What are consumers?
300
The main two food webs on earth.
What are a land food web and an aquatic food web.
300
Trees in this forest produce seeds in cones.
What is a coniferous forest?
300
A biome that has very cold temperatures and little rainfall.
What is a tundra?
400
Organisms can be divided into three groups.
What are consumers, producers, and decomposers.
400
If an organism gets its energy by breaking down dead organisms it is called this.
What is a decomposer?
400
Omnivores that eat dead plants and animals.
What are scavengers?
400
In this forest the soild is very thin and poor in nutrients, therefore many trees grow above-ground roots for extra support.
What is a tropical rain forest?
400
The layer of soil beneath the surface soil stays frozen. It is called the permafrost. In what tundra can this layer of soil be found?
What is the polar tundra?
500
It is the source of energy for almost all living things.
What is sunlight?
500
Some consumers eat only plants. Some only eat animals. Some eat both plants and animals. They are called these three things.
What are herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores.
500
The food chain begins with _________ and ends with _______.
What are sunlight and death?
500
This tundra is found above the tree line and gets plenty of sunlight and precipitation.
What is the Alpine tundra?
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