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

A relationship between two species in which both species benefit.

What is Mutualism?

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
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
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

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?

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 are 3rd of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.

What is tertiary?

300
The two major types of water ecosystems.
What are freshwater and marine.
300
The two reasons biodiversity is important.
What are for economic reasons, medical reasons, scientific reasons, enviromental reasons?
300
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
400

An organism that breaks down wastes 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

Each biome is associated with seasonal patterns of Blank & Blank

What is temperature and precipitation?

400
These animals have not changed for thousands of years.
What are living fossils?
400

A series of more-or-less predictable events that occur in a community over time

What is Ecological Succession?

500
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
500

What is the level of energy in a food web or food chain called?

What is trophic level?

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

The first species to colonize barren areas

What is a pioneer species?

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?