Biomes
What is the Tropical Rain Forest?
This organism can create its own food.
This organism gets energy from eating another organism.
This organism feeds on dead or decaying organisms.
What is a producer?
What is a consumer?
What is a decomposer?
This is the process of a plant taking sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to create oxygen and glucose.
What is photosynthesis?
This is the variety of organisms that live in Earth's ecosystems.
What is Biodiversity?
Organisms interacting with one another and with their physical environment.
What is an ecosystem?
This is the biome in which we live. There are warm summers and cold winters. It has trees that those their leaves in the autumn.
What is the Deciduous Forest?
This organism eats only plants.
This organism eats both plants and animals.
This organism eats only meat.
What is a herbivore?
What is an omnivore?
What is a carnivore?
This shows the link between organisms and how energy is passed between them.
What is a Food Chain?
1. This is an organism that hunts and eat others.
2. This is an organism that is hunted and eaten.
1. What is a Predator?
2. What is a Prey?
This is the living parts of an ecosystem.
This is the non-living part of an ecosystem.
What is biotic?
What is abiotic?
This biome attracts grazing animals and rodents, like field mice. They are wide open fields of grass and are found on ever continent except Antarctica.
What is Grasslands?
A long term relationship between species.
What is symbiosis?
This is a response of a plant to a condition in the environment.
1. grows toward the sun
2. grows toward the water
3. grows toward the ground
4. grows toward something it is touching
What are:
1. phototropism
2. hydrotropism
3. geotropism
4. thigmotropism
1. This means there are no more of this organism.
2. This means the organism is in danger of becoming extinct.
3. This means the organism is in danger of becoming endangered.
1. What is extinct?
2. What is endangered?
3. What is threatened?
Organisms that live together in an ecosystem. It contains many different populations of organisms.
What is a community?
This biome contains evergreens, such as pine and fir trees. The winters are long and cold. The forest floor is covered with mosses and lichens.
What is the Taiga?
This relationship between organisms is when one feeds off and harms the other, for example, a tick.
What is parasitism?
The process in which plants release water through stomata.
What is transpiration?
How can humans negatively and positively affect ecosystems?
Negatively: pollute, burn, cut down, kill
Positively: clean up, conserve, protect
Members of a population that are the same kind of organism.
What is a species?
This biome's subsoil is frozen year-round. It has long, cold winters and cool summers. Snow and ice cover the ground most of the year.
What is the Tundra?
These are the 2 helpful forms or organism relationships. The first relationship is when one organism is benefitted and the other is not harmed. The second, is when both organisms benefit.
What is commensalism?
What is mutualism?
In this process the organism uses oxygen to break down glucose.
What is cell respiration?
What are the percentages of fresh water, salt water?
Fresh: 3%
Salt: 97%
A group of same kinds of organisms that live in an area.
What is a Population?