Biomes
Animal Adaptations
Food Chains
Ecology
Vocabulary
100
This biome receives little precipitation and has plants adapted for long periods without water.
What is desert?
100
When an animal blends in with its environment
What is camouflage?
100
This is where the energy in a food chain starts.
What is the sun?
100
The study of ecosystems.
What is ecology?
100
An area similar in wildlife types, climate, and land.
What is a biome?
200
This biome contains trees which regularly lose their leaves as an adaptation to winter conditions.
What is deciduous forest?
200
Type of coloring that an organism has to let other organisms know that it is dangerous.
What is aposematic coloring?
200
A carnivore is likely to be this.
What is secondary or tertiary consumer?
200
The total number of a species of organism an area can hold given its current resources.
What is carrying capacity?
200
All the same species living in an area.
What is a population?
300
This biome exhibits HUGE amounts of species diversity and is located near the equator.
What is tropical rainforest?
300
Rule stating that animals in colder environments have larger bodies.
What is Bergman's rule?
300
The amount of energy passed between each level in a food chain.
What is 10%?
300
Type of relationships organisms often have with one another.
What is symbiotic?
300
All living and non-living things in an area
What is an ecosystem?
400
This biome is the largest land biome in the world.
What is Taiga? or Boreal Forest
400
Keen eyesight, tear-drop shaped bodies, and hollow bones are all adaptations of this type of bird.
What is raptor? Or bird of prey?
400
DAILY DOUBLE.
This is the name of the 4 level consumer in a food chain.
400
This is the smallest level of organization.
What is organism?
400
Interconnected web showing how things interact in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
500
DAILY DOUBLE
The name given to the biome that covers the most acreage on the planet.
500
Rule that states that organisms in warmer places will have longer limbs and extremities.
What is Allen's Rule?
500
The name of sugar produced by plants.
What is glucose?
500
A physical advantage an organism has to help it survive in a given environment.
What is an adaptation?
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