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Vocabulary
Food Webs
Biomes
Misc.
100

A group of living things that live in the same ecosystem and breed together.

What is a species?

100

These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.

What are producers/plants?

100
A group of land ecosysems with similiar climates and orgaisms.
What is a biome?
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
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
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 ALSO almost always ___________.

What are carnivores?

300

These are two of the forested biomes.

What are deciduous forest and tropical rainforest. (Also alpine and taiga)

300

The definition of biodiversity is _____________________.

What is the variety of different organisms living in a certain area?

400

An organism that breaks down organic wastes and dead organisms.

What is a decomposer?

400

These are organisms like bears that eat both berries (producers) and fish (primary consumers)

What are omnivores?

400
The name given to trees that lose their leaves during the winter.
What is decidious?
400
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
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 percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 90%?
500

These are 2 of the cold biomes.

What are tundra and taiga. (Also alpine and desert).

500

An new organism introduced into an ecosystem can cause a ____________ ___________ where multiple species are effected.

What is a trophic cascade?