Vocabulary
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.
What are plants?
A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms.
What is a biome?
The definition of biodiversity is _____________________.
What is the variety of different organisms living in a certain area?
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.
What is a host?
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
The biome you would be in if you were standing on a bitterly cold, dry plain with only a few, short plants scattered around.
What is the tundra?
The term given to a species that plays a very important role in an ecosystem. The ecosystem would fall apart quickly if this species disappeared.
What is a keystone species?
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
The two major types of water ecosystems.
What are freshwater and marine.
What keeps a population from infinitely growing?
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
An organism that breaks down gases and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
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?
The name given to trees that lose their leaves during the winter.
What is decidious?
What is the term for competition between two or more members of the same species?
Intraspecific competition
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 90%?
List 3 of the 6 major biomes according to the text.
What are the rain forest, desert, grassland, deciduous forest, boreal forest, or tundra?
This group of species are very sensitive to environmental changes. Usually they are the first to be hurt due to pollution.
What are indicator species?
A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is a species?