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What are Ecosystems?
How do Organisms Get Energy?
How do organisms interact?
What are Biomes?
Vocabulary
100
An Area where organisms interact with one another as well as with the nonliving parts of the environment
What is ecosystem?
100
this is the source of all energy
What is the sun?
100
the struggle among organisms for limited resources in an area is called this...
What is competition?
100
a region of the world defined by its climate and the types of plants and animals that live there
What is a biome?
100
a group of organisms of the same species living together in an ecosystem
What is a population?
200
the living parts of an ecosystem; examples include plants, animals, bacteria
What are biotic?
200
this organism makes its own food; example - grass
What is a producer?
200
a close relationship between organisms of different species in which one or both of the organisms benefit
What is symbiosis?
200
name the four biomes that were presented in class
What are desert, tundra, forest, and grasslands?
200
all of the populations living in an ecosystem make up this
What is a community?
300
the non-living parts of an ecosystem; examples include climate, water, soil nutrients, light, and air
What are abiotic?
300
an organism that eats other organisms
What is a consumer?
300
the type of symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits, while the other is harmed; example dog / heartworm
What is parasitism?
300
describe the conditions nearest the equator
What are warm and wet?
300
the part of an ecosystem in which an organism lives
What is habitat?
400
a sequence of connected producers and consumers is called this
What is a food chain?
400
the type of symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit; example - flowers / bees
What is mutualism?
400
True or False - Temperature drops as altitude increases
What is true?
400
an organism's role in an ecosystem is also called this
What is niche?
500
two of the most important factors that determine how diverse an ecosystem is...
What are climate and location?
500
this shows that energy is lost at each level of the food chain
What is an energy pyramid?
500
the type of symbiotic relationship in which one organisms benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed; example - barnacles / mussels
What is commensalism?
500
the two most important factors in determining climate
What are temperature and precipitation?
500
this term refers to the variety of species in an ecosystem
What is diversity?