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Biosphere
Symbiosis
Biome
Cycles
Energy Flow
100
All of the individuals of one species that live in the same area at the same time.
What is a population?
100
Any close interaction among two or more different species.
What is symbiosis?
100
Part of earth that supports life.
What is the biosphere?
100
Involves the process of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
100
Model that describes how energy passes from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
200
The populations of different species that interact in some way.
What is a community?
200
A positive reciprocal relationship between two species
What is mutualism?
200
Virginia's biome.
What is the temperate forest?
200
The movement of carbon through earth's biosphere.
What is the carbon cycle?
200
Model describes how energy from food moves through a community.
What is a food web?
300
All the communities in an area and the abiotic factors they interact with.
What is an ecosystem?
300
where one organism benefits without affecting the other.
What is commensalism?
300
The "highest" biome.
What is mountain?
300
Begins with the transfer of nitrogen from the atmosphere to producers then to consumers.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
300
Mushrooms break down organic material.
What are decomposers?
400
Large region with plants and animals well adapted to the soil and climate of the region.
What is a biome?
400
Relationship between two species in which one benefits at the expense of the other, sometimes without killing it.
What is parasitism?
400
Three "hot" biomes.
What are desert, savanna, and chaparral?
400
Matter on earth is never lost or gained.
What is the law of conservation of mass?
400
Models the number of organisms at each level of the food chain.
What is an ecological pyramid?
500
There are two types of forest in the world.
What are the temperate and tropical rain forests?
500
A flat worm lives in the gills of a horseshoe crab, eating scraps of the horseshoe crab's meals.
What is Commensalism?
500
The ten biomes found on earth.
What are ice, tundra, taiga, grassland, temperate forest, tropical rain forest, chaparral, savanna, desert, and mountain?
500
All living organisms contain this element.
What is carbon?
500
Bacteria produce food using the energy in chemical compounds instead of light energy.
What is chemosynthesis?