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Vocabulary
Food Webs
Biomes
Biodiversity
Misc.
100
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
100
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.
What are Plants?
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?
200
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?
200

The organisms that are responsible for recycling nutrients and energy back into an ecosystem

What are decomposers?

200
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?
200

The term given to the count of a population that a habitat can hold given its resources available

What is a carrying capacity?

200
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
300
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
300
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary (3rd) consumers?
300

An example of a freshwater ecosystems.

What are lakes, streams, rivers, ponds

300
The two reasons biodiversity is important.
What are for economic reasons, medical reasons, scientific reasons, enviromental reasons?
300

Another word for the job that an organism has in it's habitat

What is a niche?

400
An organism that breaks down waste and dead organisms.
What is a 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
These animals have not changed for thousands of years.
What are living fossils?
400
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
500

A series of events in which an ecosystem regrows itself after an abiotic disruption, attempting to reach a stable climax community

What is a ecological succession?

500
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 90%?
500
List 3 of the 6 major biomes according to the reading in the textbook.
What are the rain forest, desert, grassland, deciduous forest, boreal forest, or tundra?
500
This group of species is very sensitive to environmental changes. Usually, they are the first to be hurt due to pollution.
What are indicator species?
500

On a food chain or food web, the arrows point from:

1 - the predator to the prey

2 - the prey to the predator

What is a 2?