Biomes
A large water based ecosystem.
What is an Aquatic Biome?
Organisms that are able to make their own food.
What are producers?
All living and non-living things in a specific area.
What is an ecosystem?
An animal that hunts and an animal that gets hunted.
What is predator and prey?
The continuous movement of water above and below the earth's surface.
What is the water cycle?
A large region, with extreme temperatures, and low precipitation.
What is a Desert Biome?
Organisms that eat only plants
What are herbivores?
Non-living components of an ecosystem.
What is an abiotic factor?
A relationship where one benefits and one is harmed.
What is parasitism?
A process that uses CO2, water, and sunlight; to create glucose and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
Large terrestrial ecosystem surrounded by trees and other woody vegetation.
What is a Forest Biome?
Organisms that only eat other organisms.
What are carnivores?
The role an organism plays in their ecosystem.(How it eats, how it socializes, how it survives)
What is a niche?
A relationship where BOTH organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
The cycle where carbon is cycled through out earth and is atmosphere.
What is the carbon cycle?
A large, open ecosystem , dominated by grass instead of trees.
What is a Grassland Biome?
An organism that can break down dead matter.
What is a decomposer?
All living OR once living organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a biotic factor?
A relationship where one is benefited and the other is neither benefited or harmed.
What is commensalism?
The process where glucose and oxygen is turned into CO2, water, and ATP(energy).
A cold, harsh, usually treeless environment.
What is a Tundra Biome?
Organisms that can eat both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
The MAXIMUM amount of individuals an ecosystem can support.
What is the carrying capacity of an ecosystem?
An interaction between two or more organisms that need the same resource.
What is competition?
The process in which nitrogen is circulated throughout the atmosphere, soli, water, and living organisms.
What is the nitrogen cycle?