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These organisms get their energy through the use of photosynthesis.
What are Producers?
A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms.
What is a biome?
This process involves the clearing of forests to make way for agriculture, urban development, or other human activities.
What is deforestation?
What is a Prey animal?
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 and the second step of the Energy Pyramid; 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 permafrost and only a few, short plants scattered around.
What is the tundra?
This marine Keystone Species plays a crucial role in fertilizing the photic zone of the ocean, helping to sustain the growth of plankton and supporting the entire marine food web.
What is a Whale?
What is a Niche?
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a Food Chain?
These organisms are typically at the top of the Energy Pyramid. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
This term refers to the variety of life found within a biome, including the different species of plants, animals, and microorganisms.
What is biodiversity?
This phenomenon affects the distribution of species across different ecosystems through a shift in average temperatures.
What is Climate Change?
These organisms, such as fungi and bacteria, break down dead organic material and recycle nutrients back into the ecosystem.
What is a Decomposer?
The number of organisms of one species which an Ecosystem can support.
What is the Carrying Capacity?
DAILY DOUBLE
The name given to trees that lose their leaves during the winter.
What is decidious?
The reintroduction of these animals at Isle Royale has impacted the ecosystem.
What are Wolves?
The parts of the environment used by organisms for their needs.
What are Natural Rescources?
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is Commensalism?
The percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer.
What is 90%?
The area on Earth that contains all living things, including the ocean, the lower atmosphere, and all of Earth's biomes.
What is the biosphere?
These species, crucial for ecosystems and plant reproduction, are impacted by climate change.
What are pollinators?
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?