Vocabulary
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
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 is a parasite, lives in or on a parasitism interaction.
What is a host?
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
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?
Desert is one of the biomes with the most biodiversity.
True/False
False ?
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.
The two reasons biodiversity is important.
What are for economic reasons, medical reasons, scientific reasons, enviromental reasons?
An organism that breaks down waste 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?
What is the Earth's coldest and harshest biome?
What is tundra?
a species in danger of extinction.
What is an endangered species?
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.
What are the rain forest, desert, grassland, deciduous forest, boreal forest, or tundra?
One benefit of wetlands is that they support a wide variety of plants and animals, which means wetlands have great
Biodiversity
A group of organisms that are similar and can produce offspring that can also reproduce.
What is a species?