Vocabulary
Food Webs
Biomes
Biodiversity
Misc.
Succession
100
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
Habitat
100
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.
Plants or Autotrophs
100
A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms.
What is a biome?
100
The definition of biodiversity is _____________________.
What is the variety of different organisms living in a certain area?
100
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.
What is a host?
100
What is the first species in a new location called?
Pioneer Species
200
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
Ecosystem
200
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
Primary consumers
200
The biome you would be in if you were standing on a bitterly cold, dry plain with only a few, short plants scattered aournd.
What is the tundra?
200
What is one of the three types of biodiversity?
Genetic Diversity. Species Diversity and Ecosystem Diversity.
200
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
200
During primary succession, what process takes the longest that is also the reason secondary succession is much faster?
The creation of soil
300
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
Commensalism
300
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ________ ___________.
Apex Predators
300
The two major types of water ecosystems.
What are freshwater and marine.
300
What locations on Earth has the greatest AND least amount of species diversity?
Greatest - Tropical Rainforest
Least - Artic
300
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
300
Give an example of an event that would cause secondary succession to occur.
Wild fire, flood, landslide.
400
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
Decomposer
400
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?
400
The name given to trees that lose their leaves during the winter.
What is decidious?
400
Give one benefit of Biodiversity.
Boost ecosystem productivity
Larger amount of plant species means a greater amount of crops.
Healthy ecosystems can better withstand and recover from a variety of disasters.
Greater species diversity ensures nature sustainability for all organisms.
400
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
400
The final stage of both primary and secondary succession results in this...
Climax Community
500
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
Food chain
500
Give two effects the removal of the frog from this food web would have on other organisms.
Ex. Less food for the python and eagle. Dragonfly, butterfly, fruit fly and grasshopper populations would increase.
500
List 3 of the 6 major biomes according to our notes.
What are the rain forest, desert, grassland, deciduous forest, Taiga (coniferous forest), Ocean, Tundra and Artic?
500
List 3 Services a healthy ecosystem can provide.
Protection of water resources
Soil formation and protection
Nutrient Storage and Recycling
Pollution breakdown and absorption
Contribute to climate stability
Maintenance of Ecosystems
Recovery from unpredictable events.
500
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?
500
Give an example of three different types of pioneer species.
Lichen, Moss, Fungai.