Vocabulary
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
What is a consumer?
A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
What is a biome?
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ___________ consumers
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
What is a scavenger?
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
An animal that naturally preys on others
What is a predator?
The two major types of water ecosystems.
What are freshwater and marine?
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis
What are plants?
A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring.
What is a species?
An organism that breaks down waste and dead organisms
What is a decomposer?
Makes their own food
What is a producer?
What is the most important factor that affects the distribution of organisms?
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
What is an energy pyramid?
Fresh water ecosystems include: ___________________
A network of food chains by which energy and nutrients are passed on from one living organism to another
What is a food web?
An animal or plant that a parasite lives on
What is a host?
Which two biomes receive the least amount of precipitation?
What is desert and tundra?
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called _____________ consumers
What is tertiary?
Fresh water ecosystems vary by ___________________
What are temperature, pressure, and the amount of light the water receives?
Graphical model of energy flow in a community
What is a food pyramid?
An animal that is hunted and killed by another for food
What is prey?
What is most likely to determine the type of animal that lives in a biome?
What is plants?
The arrows represent ____________ in a food web
What is energy?
Where is energy greatest in the food web?