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Which of these is the most common: decomposers, consumers, or producers?
Producers
What is a biotic factor? Give an example.
A living thing varies.
A cool forest of cone-bearing evergreen trees
Taiga
A relationship between two kinds of organisms that lasts over time
Symbiosis
The role a species plays in a food web
Niche
The final stage of succession when a community is stabilized and succession is slow or at a stop
Climax community
What is an abiotic factor? Give an example.
A nonliving thing. Varies.
A water ecosystem that is located where a river flows into an ocean
Estuary
Give an example of competition:
Varies
The living and nonliving things in an area interacting with each other
Ecosystem
Is a scavenger a consumer, decomposer, or producer?
Consumer
Put these words in order: community, individual, population, ecosystem
Individual, community, population, ecosystem
Where would you find permafrost?
The tundra
Put these in order: extinct, vulnerable, threatened, endangered
Vulnerable, threatened, endangered, extinct
What is the difference between a decomposer, consumer, and producer?
A decomposer eats the remains of dead organisms, a consumer eats other organisms, and a producer produces its own food.
What is a limiting factor? Give an example.
A condition that controls the size or the growth of a population
Varies
Would a pioneer community appear in secondary succession or primary succession?
Primary
What biome would you say we live in?
Deciduous forest
Tell me the difference between mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism.
Mutual = good for both
Commensalism = good for one, doesn't affect the other
Parasitism = bad for both
How are a food chain and food web different?
A food chain is one path and a food web is overlapping paths
What is an energy pyramid?
A diagram that shows the amount of energy available at each level of an ecosystem
What is the difference between primary succession and secondary succession?
Primary succession is the first life that appears after a land is laid to waste.
Secondary succession is when an old ecosystem is disrupted and then remade with a new type of ecosystem.
Tell me all six biomes:
Desert
Tundra
Deciduous forest
Rain forest
Taiga
Wetland
Is a spider a predator or prey?
Both
Describe a food chain. Start with the sun, and then tell me four organisms in order:
Varies