Vocabulary
Food Webs
Biomes/Photosynthesis
Difficult*
Difficulter*
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 photosynthesis. 

What are Producers?

100

A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms.

What is a biome?

100

Give two examples of a decomposer

What are bacteria, mold, mushrooms, earth worms, and termites?
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

List 3 major biomes.

What are the desert, grassland/savanna, forest, marine or tundra?

200

Used to display multiple species eating a single organism

What is food web?

200
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
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 ____________   ___________

What is Apex Predator?

300

The biproduct of photosynthesis

What is oxygen?

300

Things in an ecosystem that control how large a population can become.

What are limiting factors?

300

A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.

What is a scavenger?

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. (i.e. 100% - 10% - 1% - 0.1%)

What is an trophic level/energy pyramid?

400

The 3 'ingredients' for plants to perform photosynthesis

What is carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight?

400

The thing an arrow in a food chain and food web indicates

What is the flow of energy?

400

A group of organism that are physically similar and can produce offspring that can also reproduce.

What is a species?

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?

What is 90%?

500

The organelle that absorbs and uses sunlight to make energy

What are chloroplast?


500
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
500

The name given to trees that lose their leaves during the winter.

What is decidious?