The main reason prairie plants and desert plants grow differently.
What is the amount of rainfall?
100
This type of organism's role in an ecosystem is to supply energy for consumers.
What is a producer?
100
These must be met in order for any living organism to survive in an ecosystem.
What are basic needs (eating, drinking, breathing, and shelter)?
100
When there is more individuals of one type of population than an area is able to support.
What is overpopulation?
100
A mushroom, worm, maggot, etc.
What is an example of a decomposer?
200
One of the names for biomes that are typically flat, with few trees but lots of plant life.
What is a prairie/grassland/savannah?
200
This type of organism's role, in an ecosystem, is to feed on decaying matter which gives plants important nutrients.
What is a decomposer?
200
This cycle shows one way in which plants and animals depend on each other for survival.
What is the carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle?
200
Producers are less able to provide THIS for themselves or for other organisms when there are many cloudy days.
What is food?
200
The part or role an organism plays in an environment.
What is a niche?
300
In a rain forest ecosystems, the trees in the emergent and canopy layers are different from the plants on the rainforest floor because they receive different amounts of this.
What is sunlight?
300
Also known as primary consumers, these animals only eat plants.
What is a herbivore?
300
The main energy source in an ecosystem.
What is the sun?
300
Starvation, migration and extreme competition occur when this situation is at its worst.
What is overpopulation?
300
This organism can provide food for many animals making it a very important part of any food web.
What are plants?
400
Most forests in North America are this kind.
What are temperate decidous forests?
400
Animals that eat animals and plants.
What is an omnivore?
400
Soil, light, rocks, water and air are all examples of these.
What are abiotic factors?
400
Humans building highways, overpopulation, natural weather events, and pollution can all create this.
What change in an ecosystem?
400
The compound that animals breath out in the carbon cycle.
What is carbon dioxide?
500
One of the major differences between a tundra and a desert.
What is average temperature?
What is plant life?
What is location?
500
Also known as secondary consumers, these animals only eat other animals.
What is a carnivore?
500
Living organisms basic needs.
What is food, water, air (oxygen or carbon dioxide), and shelter?
500
Plants and animals not decomposing has this effect on soil.
What is decrease in quality (nutrients)?
500
The process where plants use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide into energy (sugar) in order to grow.