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/producers?
A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms; examples would be a desert or a grassland.
What is a biome?
What are the two reactants a plant needs, along with sunlight, to perform photosynthesis?
What are water (H2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2)?
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?
This biome is a bitterly cold, dry plain with only a few, short plants scattered across the permafrost.
What is the tundra?
The two products created from photosynthesis.
What are oxygen and sugar/glucose?
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
Typically at the top of the food chain, with few or no natural predators, these organisms are called ____________ predators.
What is apex?
This diverse biome has more that half of the world's plant and animal species, with over 3 million different species.
What is the tropical rainforest/jungle?
The reverse process of photosynthesis, used by consumers.
What is cellular respiration?
An organism that breaks down wastes 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?
The name given to trees that lose their leaves during the winter.
What is decidious?
The structures in plants that contain the chlorophyll.
What are chloroplasts?
The name for a necessary part of an ecosystem that is non-living.
What is abiotic?
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
This biome is home to tumbleweeds, gila monsters, and kangaroo rats.
What is the desert?
The "mouths" or structures on leaves that open and close, allowing water and gases to pass.
What are stomata?
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?