Web of Life
An animal that preys on other animals for food
What is a carnivore?
An organism that cannot make its own food.
What is heteroptroph?
The biome that is the realm of lions, wildebeests, and baobab trees.
What is Savanna?
This biome has permanently frozen ground and little vegetation, long winters, and short summers. Animals like caribou and grizzly bears live here.
What is tundra?
The smaller part of an ecosystem that an organism prefers to live in is known as that organism's...
What is habitat?
A model that shows a single path of energy from organism to organism
What is food chain?
An organism that eats both plants and animals...
What is an omnivore?
Has moderate temperatures and precipitation, but doesn't get enough rain to support trees. Horses and pheasants live here.
What is grassland?
This biome has very low precipitation, has hot and cold temperatures (fluctuates day to night) and the plants and animals in this biome have water-conserving mechanisms and are often active at night.
What is desert?
All the organisms of the same species living in the same area are known a(n)...
What is population?
An organism that breaks down dead plant and animal material into nutrients.
What is a decomposer?
An animal that gets its food only from plants...
What is an herbivore?
Trees like hemlock, fir, and redwood dominate this biome, which has cooler temperatures and moderate rainfall. Elk, moose, and wolverines live here.
What is coniferous forest?
An area within a biome in which living and nonliving things interact is called a(n)...
What is ecosystem?
The two primary factors that define a particular climate are...
What are temperature and precipitation?
All the living matter within an ecosystem.
What is biomass?
An organism that can make its own food.
What is an autotroph?
This biome has cool, wet winters, warm dry summers, and plants with tough, waxy leaves.
What is chaparral?
Oaks, birches, and maples grow in this biome. It has moderate temperatures and rainfalls. Raccoons and songbirds live here.
What is deciduous forest?
What is neutralism?
A visual representation of the levels of organisms in an ecosystem through which energy flows.
What is ecological pyramid?
The proportionality of the populations of species relative to each other is known as...
What is species evenness?
This biome has huge amounts of precipitation, year-round warm temperatures, and sloths and poison-arrow frogs call it home.
What is tropical rainforest?
The ecological layers within a biome due to factors such as geographical elevation or depth of water are known as...
What is vertical zonation?
What three factors affect the biotic vertical zones in a body of water?
What are dissolved oxygen, light, and termperature?