Vocabulary
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
These organisms eat meat and plants
What are omnivores?
Some ecosystems can be fixed after damage or destruction
What is restoration?
All the living and non-living organisms interacting in the same habitat.
What is an ecosystem?
These organisms create their own food using photosynthesis.
What is a producer?
This biome has a layer of soil that can either be sandy, gravelly or stony.
What is a desert biome?
The term given to a species that plays a very important role in an ecosystem. The ecosystem would fall apart quickly if this species dissappeared.
What is a keystone species?
________ can be physical, or it can be chemical processes in cells.
What is energy?
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
The two major types of water ecosystems.
What are freshwater and marine?
Permafrost: A thick, permanently frozen layer of soil beneath the topsoil that prevents deep root growth and water drainage.
What is an abiotic factor in a terrestrial tundra biome?
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
In a food web, if a top predator is removed from the ecosystem, what is the most likely immediate effect on its prey population?
What is a way prey population would increase?
When a forest has many different species of plants and animals, it is more likely to survive disease, natural disasters, and climate changes because of this ecological principle.
What is increased stability due to high biodiversity?
The role a species plays in the ecosystem
What is a niche?
An average of 10% of energy is passed to the next level, while approximately 90% is lost
What is the 10% rule?
List the 4 types of terrestrial biomes.
What are grasslands, forests, deserts, and tundra?
Depending on the of behavior an organism is engaging in, ____ _____ are a moving scale
Symbiotic Relationships
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?