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Just the facts
100

This humid biome is located between the Tropics and along the equator and is home to the most numerous types of plants and animals.

What is a tropical rain forest?

100

This relationship is beneficial for both organisms. 

mutualism

100
Coniferous trees are the main plant of this biome.
What is boreal, taiga or coniferous forest?
100

This biome has a great deal of rain with cooler temperatures and is found in Oregon.

What is a temperate rain forest?

100

This is the largest terrestrial biome in the world.

Tropical Rainforest

200
This biome is located in the far north but does not get much snow.
What is tundra?
200

This relationship is ______________.  One organism is harmed while one benefits. 

parasitism

200
Grass and small shrubs dominate this biome region.
What is a grassland?
200

A place where fresh water and salt water meet

estuary

200
When a rabbit eats a plant, what level consumer is it?
What is a primary consumer?
300

This biome has evergreen trees.  It is cold and snowy.

Taiga 

300
Living parts of an ecosystem

What is biotic?

300
A saguaro cactus is one of the few plants that can survive the extremes of this region.
What is a desert?
300
This biome is extremely cold and dry and receives the same amount of precipitation as a desert.
What is tundra?
300

This is the amount an ecosystem can take care of 

carrying capacity

400

This biome is found in several places on earth. It has grasses and very few large plants.  Many different mammals live in this area. 

What is grassland or savannah?

400

One organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed. 

commensalism

400
Plants in this biome grow in 4 distinct layers: canopy, emergent layer, understory and floor.
What is a tropical rain forest?
400
Usually gets 25-75 centimeters of rain. Fires and droughts are common.
What is a grassland?
400
The main factor in an area that determines it's biome.
What is climate?
500
This biome has much diversity and trees that lose their leaves in winter.
What is deciduous forest?
500

These types of organisms rid the environment of dead things. 

decomposer

500

Plants can photosynthesize and are called what?

producers

500

This biome has lots of trees and murky water

swamp
500

Animals cannot make food. They are called

consumers