Vocabulary
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
What is a biome?
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called __________ consumers
What is primary?
What are the three types of symbiotic relationships?
What are commensalism, parasitism, mutualism?
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
What is a scavenger?
Makes their own food
The two major types of water ecosystems
What are freshwater and marine?
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis
What are plants?
This is a type of close and long term biological interaction between two different species
What is symbiosis?
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?
What is the most important factor that affects the distribution of organisms?
What is temperature?
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?
Bees get food from plants and the plants are pollinated. What type of symbiotic relationship is this?
What is mutualism?
Fresh water ecosystems include: __________________________
Hint: There are 5
What are lakes, ponds, streams, springs, and wetlands?
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?
The arrows in a food web represent _______________
What is energy?
A tick feeds off of the blood of a deer. What type of symbiotic relationship is this?
What is parasitism?
Fresh water ecosystems vary by _____________
Hint: There are 3
What are temperature, pressure, and the amount of light the water receives?
A network of food chains by which energy and nutrients are passed on from one living organism to another
What is a food web?
What is most likely to determine the type of animal that lives in a biome?
What is plants?
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called _____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
A remora attaches itself to the back of a shark and rides along, saving its energy. What type of symbiotic relationship is this?
What is commensalism?
Where is energy greatest in the food web?
What is at the bottom?