What's the Word?
An environment that provides the things an organism neds to live, grow, and reproduce.
Habitat
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
Food Chain or Food Web
Regions that have similar living and nonliving features.
Biome
This term describes a close and often long-term interaction between two different species, which may benefit one or both of the organisms involved.
Symbiosis
This term describes the natural processes by which elements such as carbon, nitrogen, and water cycle through the living and nonliving components of an ecosystem.
Biogeochemical cycles.
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
Ecosystem
The ultimate source of energy for all life on Earth.
Sun
The biome you would be in if you were standing on a bitterly cold, dry plain with only a few, short plants scattered aournd
Tundra
A relationship between two species in which both species benefit.
Mutualism
This biogeochemical cycle involves the movement of water between the atmosphere, oceans, and land, and is essential for the survival of all living things.
Water Cycle
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.
Autotroph or Producer
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
Energy Pyramid
The two major types of water ecosystems.
Freshwater and Marine
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is harmed.
Parasitism
Human activities such as burning fossil fuels have disrupted this cycle and led to an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Carbon Cycle
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
Decomposer or Detritivore
The four levels of an energy pyramid are...
Producers, Primary Consumers, Secondary Consumers, Tertiary Consumers
The name given to trees that lose their leaves during the winter.
Decidious
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
Commensalism
This biogeochemical cycle involves the movement of nitrogen between the atmosphere, soils, and living organisms.
Nitrogen Cycle
The collection of all living things on Earth.
Biosphere
This term describes the highest level predator in an ecosystem.
Apex Predator
Name three of the six major biomes.
Tundra, taiga, deciduous forest, grassland, desert, tropical rainforest.
Identify and describe an example of a symbiotic relationship.
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Draw and label a diagram of the water cycle.
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