Levels of the Environment
This level of the environment includes a group of the same species living in the same area at a given time.
What is a population?
This complex network of feeding relationships in an ecosystem includes multiple food chains and shows how energy flows through different species.
What is a food web?
Anything that regulates the size of a population is known as this term.
What is a limiting factor?
This adaptation occurs in colder biomes where animals sleep more during the coldest parts of the year.
What is hibernation?
What is the tropical rainforest?
This term refers to a group of different populations that live together in a defined area and interact with each other.
What is a community?
In a typical food chain, this type of consumer feeds on producers and is classified as the first level of consumers.
What are primary consumers?
This statement is either true or false: limiting factors can include both biotic and abiotic factors.
What is true?
This biome is located in the northernmost part of the world, has mammals with thick fur, and absolutely no trees.
What is the tundra?
The taiga biome can be found in these parts of the world.
What is Canada and Russia?
This broader level includes all ecosystems on Earth, characterized by their climate and geographical features.
What is a biome?
This is where the energy come from in a food web.
What is the sun?
This term can be defined as the maximum number of individuals that can live in an area based on available resources.
What is carrying capacity?
This biome covers most of the land mass near Earth's equator.
What is tropical rainforest?
This biome is often formed because of mountains.
Tundra, desert, and grasslands are all examples of this level of environment.
What is a biome?
These organisms obtain energy from sunlight and make their own food through a process called photosynthesis.
What are producers or autotrophs?
The following factors can decrease a population's carrying capacity.
What is pollution, wildfire, drought, etc.?
Canada, Savanna, Arctic Circle, Georgia
What is Arctic Circle?
Marine biomes have this plant characteristic.
This is the largest level of environmental organization, which includes all living things on Earth, interacting with each other and their environments.
What is the biosphere?
This is the amount of energy retained at each trophic level in a food chain.
What is 10%?
A forest holds five bears who eat 150 fish and drink 15 gallons of water a day. This is the carrying capacity in the previous scenario.
This biome is found at the same latitude as deciduous forests, but receive less precipitation.
What is grassland?
These are the two main factors scientists use when determining the location of biomes.
What are temperature and precipitation?