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 Producers
A group of land ecosysems with similiar climates and orgaisms.
What is a biome?
The definition of biodiversity is _____________________.
What is the variety of different organisms living in a certain area?
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.
What is a host?
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?
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?
The term given to a species that plays a very important role in an ecosystem. The ecosystem would fall apart quickly if this species disappeared.
What is a keyston species?
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
What does an environment need to support trees?
What is precipitation or water?
The biome with the greatest biodiversity.
What is the rainforest
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
A type of growth where a species can continue to grow with nothing stopping it.
What is exponential growth?
In any ecosystem all energy ultimately comes from the
What is the sun?
Name the biome that makes up all of Kansas.
What is grassland?
A group of diverse organisms that feed on the remains of dead matter.
What are decomposers?
A group of organisms that interact in a certain habitat.
What is a community?
The number organisms that a region can support
What is a carrying capacity?
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 90%?
As you move toward the equator, biodiversity ________.
What is increases?
This group of species can take over an ecosystem, competing with other organisms pushing them out.
What is an invasive species.
A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate wit each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is a species?