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Vocabulary
Symbiosis
Water Cycle
Carbon-Oxygen Cycle
Nitrogen Cycle
100
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
100
A large organism that is being used for its nutrients.
What is a host?
100
A group of land ecosysems with similiar climates and orgaisms.
What is a biome?
100
The definition of biodiversity is _____________________.
What is the variety of different organisms living in a certain area?
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
The type of symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit.
What is mutualism?
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
The term given to a species that plays a very important role in an ecosystem. The ecosystem would fall apart quickly if this species dissappeared.
What is a keyston species?
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
What type of relationship occurs between a deer and a mosquito?
What is parasitism?
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 wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
400
Describe the effects on the symbiont and the host in commensalism. (positive, negative, neutral)
What is positive (symbiont) and neutral (host)?
400
The name given to trees that lose their leaves during the winter.
What is decidious?
400
These animals have not changed for thousands of years.
What are living fossils?
400
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
500
A series of processes that transfer matter between living things and parts of earth.
What is a biogeochemical cycle?
500
What is the term for a species that is eaten by another.
What is prey?
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
This group of species are very sensitive to environmental changes. Usually they are the first to be hurt due to pollution.
What are indicator species?
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?