sun
These are dark areas on the sun's surface.
What are sunspots?
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
A group of land ecosysems with similiar climates and orgaisms.
What is a biome?
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthese.
What are Plants?
The definition of biodiversity is _____________________.
What is the variety of different organisms living in a certain area?
The sun, and all bodies that orbit around it form this.
What is the solar system?
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
The biome you would be in if you were standing on a bitterly cold, dry plain with only a few, short plants scattered aou
What is the tundra?
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
The term given to a species that plays a very important role in an ecosystem. The ecosystem would fall apart quickly if this species dissappeared.
What is a keyston species?
All objects in the solar system travel around the sun in this kind of orbit that is not circular, but more oval shaped.
What is elliptical orbit?
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
The two major types of water ecosystems.
What are freshwater and marine.
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
The two reasons biodiversity is important
What are for economic reasons, medical reasons, scientific reasons, enviromental reasons?
This is the innermost part of the sun where it's energy is generated
What is the core?
An organism that breaks down wases and dad organisms
What is a decomposer?
The name given to trees that lose their leaves during the winter.
What is decidious?
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
What is an energy pyramid?
These animals have not changed for thousands of years
What are living fossils?
The sun's rays strike Earth most directly along here.
What is the equator?
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
List 3 of the 6 major biomes according to the reading in the textbook.
What are the rain forest, desert, grassland, deciduous forest, boreal forest, or tundra?
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 90%?
This group of species are very sensitive to environmental changes. Usually they are the first to be hurt due to pollution.
What are indicator species?