Location,
Location
Location
This constantly humid, warm biome is located between the Tropics and along the equator and is home to the most numerous types of plants and animals with specialized ways of surviving.
What is a tropical rain forest?
Makes its own food through photosynthesis or chemical sources
What is producer?
Living and once living parts of an ecosystem
What are biotic factors?
Single-celled organisms with cell walls but no nuclei
What is bacteria?
Many feeding relationships possible in an ecosystem
What is a food web?
This biome is located in the far north, and contains a layer of permafrost (permanently frozen soil).
What is tundra?
Another name for a consumer
What is heterotroph?
A group of organisms that are closely related and can mate to produce fertile offspring
What is species?
Contain many cells and have no cell walls
What is animal?
When a rabbit eats a plant, what level consumer is it?
What is a primary consumer?
This biome receives less than 25 cm of rainfall annually and plants have adaptations for obtaining and conserving water, such as a coating on leaves and thick fleshy stems.
What is the desert?
Eats both plants and animals
What is omnivore?
all the members of the same species that live in the same place at the same time
What is a population?
Absorb food their body surface and have cell walls
What is fungi?
Woody vascular plants whose seeds are not enclosed by an ovary or fruit
What is a gymnosperm?
This biome with 4 seasons has much diversity and trees that lose their leaves in winter.
What is temperate deciduous forest?
Consumer that eats a secondary consumer
What is tertiary consumer?
Group of various species that live in the same place and interact with each other
What is a community?
Most single celled but some have many cells and most live in water
What is protists?
Each step in the transfer of energy through a food chain or food web in an ecosystem
What is a trophic level?
This biome is found mainly in Africa, India, northern Australia and some parts of South America and is characterized as having wet and dry seasons.
What is savanna?
Breaks down dead organisms returns nutrients to the ecosystem
What is decomposer?
Place where an organism lives
What is habitat?
Converts atmospheric nitrogen into a form plants can use
What is bacteria?
Percent and form of energy released as it passes from one trophic level to the next
What is 90% and heat?