Ecosystems
A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
What is an Ecosystem?
Regions of the world with similar climate (weather, temperature) animals and plants.
What are Biomes?
The flow of energy in a community
What is a Food Web?
A close ecological relationship between the individuals of two (or more) different species
What is Symbiosis?
All the different populations that live together in an area
What is a community?
The characteristic of life that refers to requiring energy
What is Metabolism?
coldest and the driest of all the biomes
What is the Tundra biome?
Makes its own energy/food
What is a producer?
A Barn Owl hunts for mice, shrews and voles for food at night
What is Predation?
An individual living thing
What is an organism?
A plant grows toward the sun
What is Response to Stimuli?
world's largest biome
What is the Taiga biome?
Eats only producers
What is an Herbivore or Primary Consumer?
Ticks, fleas, leeches, and lice
An organism's particular role in an ecosystem.
Organisms make more of themselves
What is Reproduction?
Near the equator
What is the Tropical Rainforest biome?
fungi, bacteria, earthworms, insects
What are examples Decomposer organisms?
A relationship that directly benefits one species but does not greatly affect the other, if at all.
What is Commensalism?
Species with a narrow ecological niche
Organization, Homeostasis, Metabolism, Reproduction, Growth and Development, Response to Stimuli, Evolution
Where we live
What is the deciduous forest biome?
Eats primarily other consumers
What is a tertiary consumer?
Ants and the Acacia Tree
What is Mutualism?