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Food Webs
Biomes
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Misc.
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 photosynthese.
What are Plants?
100
A group of land ecosysems with similiar climates and orgaisms.
What is a biome?
100
The first species to populate an area.
What is a pioneer species?
100
The full range of how an organism uses the conditions in which in lives. Also known as its role or purpose.
What is a niche?
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 ecosystem where water either covers the soil or is present at or near the surface.
What is a wetlend?
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
Each step, or level, in a food chain or web is called a ___________.
What is trophic level?
300
The two major types of water ecosystems.
What are freshwater and marine.
300
The two reasons biodiversity is important.
What are for economic reasons, medical reasons, scientific reasons, enviromental reasons?
300
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
400
An organism that breaks down wases and dad 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 decidious?
400
These animals lives on or in another organism and harms it.
What are parasites?
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
List 3 of the major biomes according to the reading in the textbook.
What are the rain forest, desert, grassland, deciduous forest, boreal forest, or tundra?
500
These factors include any characteristics of something that is or once was, living.
What are biotic factors?
500
A group of organiss that are physically similar and can mate wit each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is a species?