Picky Palate
I prefer to make my own food
What is a producer or autotroph?
The realm of life on Earth that extends from a few kilometers into the atmosphere to a few kilometers into the earth's crust
What is the biosphere?
This tells you what the earth's atmosphere is like right now
What is weather?
This biome gets less than 25 cm of rain per year
What is a desert?
The interaction between two different organisms within an ecosystem
What is symbiosis?
I cannot make my own food and prefer to eat another organism
What is a consumer or heterotroph?
The study of interrelationships between organisms and their relation to their physical surroundings
What is ecology?
The average weather of an area over an extended period of time
What is climate?
This biome has warm, humid air with large amounts of rainfall (> 250 cm/year)
What is a tropical rainforest?
This is a symbiotic relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits a the expense of the other organism or host
What is parasitism?
I prefer to eat this - the waste product of plants and animals
What is detritus?
A measurement of the number of species in a community and the abundance of each species in an area.
What is biodiversity?
These two things determine an area's climate
What is temperature and precipitation?
This biome has widely spaced trees with grasslands.
What is a savanna or grassland?
This is a symbiotic relationship between two organisms that benefits both organisms involved
What is mutualism?
I prefer to eat both insects and fruit so I am classified as this?
What is an omnivore?
A large area with a fairly consistent climate that is home to a set of plants and animals that are adapted for life in those parts of Earth
What is a biome?
These imaginary lines affect how extreme the changes associated with seasons can be
What is latitude?
This biome has moderate rainfall and temperatures along with 4 seasons that support various tree types including oak, birch, ash and maple
What is a Deciduous Forest?
This is a symbiotic relationship between two organisms where one organism benefits and the other is not helped or harmed
What is commensalism?
I prefer to eat dead organic material so that I can recycle the nutrients for use by other organisms
What is a decomposer?
The community of organisms in a particular area along with the physical characteristics of their environment
What is an ecosystem?
The presence of these (in addition to temperature and precipitation) can affect an area's climate because the temperature in it changes slowly
What are bodies of water?
This biome has moderate precipitation with cool, wet winters that alternate with warm, dry summers. It has a large number of plant species. Droughts and fires are common.
What is a Chaparral?
This symbiotic relationship is between two organisms where one is injured and the other is unaffected
What is amensalism?