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ECOSYSTEMS AND ENERGY FLOW
ECOSYSTEMS AND ENERGY FLOW PART II
ECOSYSTEMS AND ENERGY FLOW PART III
BIOMES I
BIOMES II
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An organism that can make its own food by carrying out photosynthesis
What is a producer?
100
This is where all of the energy within an ecosystem originate.
What is the sun?
100
The place an organism lives that provides the things that it needs to survive.
What is a habitat?
100
This that has 4 distinct seasons. Their leaves fall off in the fall and bloom in the spring.
What is deciduous forest?
100
A treeless plain that is characterized by very low winter temperatures; short, cool summers, and vegetation that consists of grasses, lichens, and perennial herbs. It has permafrost and animals such as, caribou, musk oxen, snowy owls, and arctic foxes.
What is the tundra?
200
An organism that obtains energy by eating other organisms
What is a consumer?
200
An organism that breaks down waste and dead organisms and returns the raw materials back to the environment.
What is a decomposer?
200
The term used to describe many overlapping food chains.
What is a food web?
200
A large geographical area characterized by a specific climate, plants, and animals.
What is a biome?
200
This biome is characterized by having 2 distinct seasons. It has coniferous trees. Animals common to this biome are moose, bears, wolves, and lynx.
What is taiga or coniferous forest.
300
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead animals.
What is a scavenger?
300
The term used to describe a consumer that feeds on both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
300
There are the 5 levels of environmental organization. (From smallest to largest)
What is organism, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere?
300
This biome is a forest or jungle near the equator that is characterized by large amounts of rain and little variation in temperature. This biome has the greatest diversity with numbers of insects, birds, reptiles, and monkeys.
What is the tropical rain forest?
300
This biome has a community that is dominated by grasses, with very few trees. It has cold winters and rainfall is intermediate between that of a forest and a desert. Grazing animals such as bison, prairie dogs and gophers are common to this biome.
What is grassland/savanna?
400
The term used to describe a diagram that shows the amount of energy loss from one trophic level to another.
What is an energy pyramid?
400
The term that is used to describe a series of events in which one organism eats another in order to obtain energy?
What is a food chain?
400
A group of organisms of the same species living in a specific area.
What is a population?
400
This term is also called the "roof top" of trees. A huge variety of animals live in this section of trees in tropical rain forests.
What is a canopy?
400
This term also means "terrestrial."
What is land?
500
The term used to describe all of the living and nonliving things that interact in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
500
The term used to describe all of the different populations that live together in an area.
What is community?
500
This factor is made up of living things.
What is a biotic factor?
500
A region that has little or no vegetation, long periods without rain, and extreme hot temperatures.
What is a desert?
500
List the 7 major biomes.
What is tundra, taiga, temperate forest (deciduous forest), grassland/savanna, desert, rain forest?