Biomes
Made up of lakes, rivers, streams, etc.
What is the freshwater biome?
Organism that eat producers
What is a primary consumer?
The gas released during cellular respiration
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)?
The maximum amount of a species in an environment
What is the carrying capacity?
When one organism benefits while the other is unbothered
What is commensalism?
Made up of large fields of grasses and has large animals roaming
What are the grasslands?
The pyramid that shows the amount of energy from producers to predators
What is the energy pyramid?
The bacteria that converts N2 into ammonia
What are nitrogen fixing bacteria?
When the birth rate is higher than the death rate
What is population growth?
When one organism is benefited and the other is harmed
What is parasitism?
Has a high rate of biodiversity, warm, and has lots of precipitation
What is the tropical rainforest?
The organism at the top of the food chain (no predators)
What is the apex predator?
When animals break down glucose for energy
What is cellular respiration?
When a population grows rapidly without stopping
What is exponential growth?
When both organisms are benefited
What is mutualism?
Has low precipitation with extreme changes in temperature
What is the desert?
When plants use sunlight to create glucose and oxygen
What is photosynthesis?
The movement of water
What is the water cycle?
When a population grows until it reaches its carrying capacity
What is logistic growth?
When a flea feeds off a dog
What is parasitism?
Has permafrost and low temperatures
What is the tundra?
The organisms that break down dead animals and plants to return nutrients to the soil
What are decomposers?
The movement of carbon
What is the carbon cycle?
The number of organisms in a species in an area
What is population density?
The organism that is harmed in parasitism
What is the host?