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?
100
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
100
The two major types of water ecosystems?
Freshwater and marine.
100
These animals have not changed for thousands of years?
Fossils.
100
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
200
An environment that provides the things an organism neds to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
200
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
200
List 3 of the 6 major biomes
The rain forest, desert, grassland, deciduous forest, boreal forest, or tundra
200
The two reasons biodiversity is important.
What are for economic reasons, medical reasons, scientific reasons, environmental reasons?
200
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
300
An organism that breaks down wastes and organisms.
What is a decomposer?
300
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthese.
What are plants?
300
The name given to trees that lose their leaves during the winter.
What is deciduous?
300
The definition of biodiversity is _____________________.
What is the variety of different organisms living in a certain area?
300
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.
What is a host?
400
What is commensalism?
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
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.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
A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms.
What is a biome?
400
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?
400
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?
500
What is a food chain?
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
500
What is 90%?
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
500
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?
500
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 keystone species?
500
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.