Vocabulary
Food Webs
Biomes
Misc.
Energy Flow
100
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
100
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.
What are Plants?
100
A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms.
What is a biome?
100
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.
What is a host?
100
The original source of almost all energy in most ecosystems?
What is the Sun?
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
Consumer that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
200
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?
200
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
200
An organism that makes its own food, usually through photosynthesis?
What is a producer (or autotroph)?
300
A symbiotic relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
300
Organism breaks down dead plants and animals for nutrients.
What is a decomposer?
300
The two major types of water ecosystems.
What are freshwater and marine.
300
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
300
Organisms that get energy by eating other organisms?
What are consumers?
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. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
What is an energy pyramid?
400
The name given to trees that lose their leaves during the winter.
What is deciduous?
400
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
400
Type of consumer that only eats plants.
What is a herbivore?
500
Living factors in an ecosystem, such as plants and animals.
What are biotic factors?
500
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 90%?
500
List 3 of the 6 major biomes according to the reading in the textbook.
What are the rain forest, desert, grassland, deciduous forest, boreal forest, or tundra?
500
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?
500
Series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten.
What is a food chain?