Ecosystem & Biomes
This is the term for all the living and nonliving things in an area interacting with each other.
What is an ecosystem?
These organisms make their own food using sunlight or chemicals.
What are producers or autotrophs?
This cycle moves water through evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and runoff.
What is the water cycle?
This is the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment.
What is fitness?
This term refers to the gradual increase in Earth's average temperature due to greenhouse gas emissions.
What is global warming?
This is the process by which ecosystems change and develop over time.
What is ecological succession?
This biome has the greatest biodiversity on Earth.
What is the tropical rainforest?
A diagram that shows multiple feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
Plants take in this gas during photosynthesis and release oxygen.
What is carbon dioxide (COâ‚‚)?
A close relationship between two species where both benefit.
What is mutualism?
The process of restoring damaged ecosystems by planting trees or cleaning up pollution.
What is ecological restoration?
This type of succession occurs in areas where no previous ecosystem existed, such as after a volcanic eruption.
What is primary succession?
These two biomes are the coldest on Earth
What are the tundra and taiga?
Organisms that break down dead matter and recycle nutrients into the ecosystem.
What are decomposers?
The process by which bacteria convert nitrogen gas from the atmosphere into a form plants can use.
What is nitrogen fixation?
A shark and a remora fish have this type of relationship, where one benefits and the other is not harmed.
What is commensalism?
This renewable energy source harnesses the power of moving air to generate electricity.
What is wind energy?
These hardy organisms, like mosses and lichens, are the first to colonize a barren environment.
What are pioneer species?
This biome is known for having very little rainfall, extreme temperature changes, and plants like cacti that store water.
What is the desert?
The amount of energy passed from one trophic level to the next in an energy pyramid.
What is 10%?
This process releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere when organisms break down glucose for energy.
What is cellular respiration?
The process by which populations change over time due to natural selection.
What is evolution?
This term describes the cutting down of large areas of forest, often for farming or development, which can lead to habitat loss and increased carbon in the atmosphere.
What is the deforestation?
This type of succession occurs in areas where a disturbance has cleared an ecosystem but left soil intact.
What is secondary succession?
This is the term for the role an organism plays in its environment, including its food, habitat, and interactions.
What is a niche?
This type of consumer only eats plants.
What is an herbivore?
Burning fossil fuels adds this greenhouse gas to the atmosphere, contributing to climate change.
What is carbon dioxide (COâ‚‚)?
This term describes an adaptation where one species looks like another to avoid predators.
What is mimicry?
This environmental disaster occurs when oil spills into the ocean, trash is thrown into the ocean, or sewage runs off into the ocean, harming marine life.
What is an ocean pollution?
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🌟 This is the stable, mature ecosystem that develops at the end of ecological succession.
What is a climax community?