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This is a system of all living organisms interacting with each other and their environment.
What is 'An Ecosystem'?
Pg 366, BWD
This biome is usually found near the Earth's equator and known for being warm and humid, thick with trees and create rain for other biomes.
What is the 'Tropical Rainforest'?
Pg 377, Tropical Rainforest section
This is the layer of the Earth that scientist refer to where lie exists on the planet.
What is the 'Biosphere'?
Pg 275, second paragraph
This model show the feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What is a 'Food Web'?
Pg 372, BWD
_______ is the preservation, care and management of natural resources.
What is 'Conservatism'?
Pg 385, third paragraph
These are nonliving components of an ecosystem.
What are 'Abiotic Factors'?
Pg 366, last paragraph
This biome gets its name from the major plant life that grows there and does not experience extreme hot or cold.
What are 'Temperate Grasslands'?
Pg 378, Temperate Grasslands section
This is a single plant or animal within the organization of an ecosystem.
What is an 'Organism'?
Pg 375, sixth paragraph
This is a method people employ to take food waste and turn it into usable biotic material for use in growing new food sources.
What is 'Composting'?
Pg 368, third paragraph
This level of organization represents all of the same/one living organisms within an ecosystem.
What is 'Population'?
Pg 375, fifth paragraph
An organism's function in in its habitat, including its relationship with other organisms.
What is 'Niche'?
Pg 366, BWD
This biome is inhabited by adaptable animals that migrate or hibernate and serves as an archaeological preserve due to plant and animal remains being preserved in the permafrost.
What is the 'Tundra'?
Pg 377, Tundra section
OF all 5 ecological levels, this is the largest.
What is a 'Biome'?
Pg 375, figure 13.12
This is the process of the world recycling all of the Earth's materials to continue supporting life.
What is the 'Biotic Cycle'?
Pg 374, Ecological Cycles section
As a result of weather and climate, the ______ and ______ cycles replenish important gases in the atmosphere to support all life.
What are the 'Carbon and Nitrogen (cycle)'?
Pg 374, second paragraph
Organisms that make their own food are _______, and organisms that obtain food by eating other organisms are ________.
What are 'Producers and Consumers'?
Pg 367, BWD
This is the process of new life taking over after an area of land is disturbed and undergoes a great change like after a volcanic eruption.
What is 'Ecological Succession'?
Pg 379, second paragraph
What are 'Pioneer Species'?
Pg 379, second paragraph
This is the level in the food chain organisms are represented with the word's root meaning 'Food'.
What is the 'Trophic Level'?
Pg 371, second paragraph
These are the three types of symbiotic relationships between organisms. (Name at least 2)
What are 'Mutualism, Commensalism, Parasitism'?
Pg 372 - 373, Symbiosis section
This is the process of bacteria that use chemicals such as sulfur and nitrogen to produce energy instead of photosynthesis.
What is 'Chemosynthesis'?
Pg 368, think about this section
Temperate grasslands go by different names in different regions around the world; ____ in Europe and Asia, ______ in South America and _______ in South Africa.
What are 'Steppes, Pampas, Veldts'?
Pg 378, Temperate grasslands section
This is a part of your body that is considered own ecosystem due to the complex mix of bacteria that inhabit it.
What is 'the palm of the hand'?
Pg 376, second paragraph
This little guy is placed between acorns and foxes in the Forest Ecosystem food chain.
What is 'The squirrel'?
Pg 371, Figure 13.7
This is actually the largest desert in the world based on definition of a desert being a place that receives less than 25cm of precipitation in a year.
What is the 'Antarctic Desert'?
Pg 374, think about this section