Factors in an ecosystem A
A measure of how hot or cold it is.
What is temperature?
The living parts of an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
An organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
In a food chain, this is the second organism and the first one which eats another organism.
What is a primary consumer?
Name a famous animal which lives in the tundra.
polar bear
A group of the same species living in the same area at the same time.
What is a population?
The nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
What are abiotic factors?
The biotic relationship where one organism kills and eats another organism.
What is predation?
The process by which plants make sugar using sunlight, water and carbon dioxide.
What is photosynthesis?
A name for animals that eat the diet of a primary consumer.
What is a herbivore?
Famous Christmas character who lives in tundra region.
Santa Claus
A group of different species living in the same area at the same time.
What is a community?
A measure of how fast the air is moving in an area.
What is wind speed?
The struggle between organisms for resources like food and shelter.
An organism that breaks down organic material like the bodies of dead animals and returns the nutrients to the soil.
What is a decomposer?
Another name for the top consumer in an ecosystem food web.
What is an apex predator?
Name the only plants which can grow in tundra region.
Mosses and litchens
A community of organisms and their interactions with each other and the surrounding environment.
What is an ecosystem?
A term for the amount of water that falls from the sky in a specific area over a specific time.
What is rainfall?
A diagram which shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain/web?
An organism that eats another organism.
What is a consumer?
A name for organisms that have the diet of a secondary consumer.
What is an omnivore/ a carnivore? (depends on the animal)
Eskimos live in .
Igloos
The place/s where a particular species lives and can be found.
What is a habitat?
The ultimate source of all energy in ecosystems as it is used by plants to make sugar.
What is sunlight?
Types of organisms in an ecosystem.
What are plants, animals, fungi, bacteria?
An organism (like a hyena or vulture) that eats animals that have not been killed by them.
What is a scavenger?
In a food chain, this is the fourth organism and usually the third animal.
What is a tertiary consumer?
Famous Christmas animal which lives in tundra region.
Reindeer
A large region with similar plants, animals and other organisms that are adapted to the terrain and weather of that region.
What is a biome?