The source of energy for almost all life on Earth.
What is sunlight?
100
Using the energy from the sun to change water and carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen is called this.
What is photosynthesis?
100
A biome that is consistently warm and receives the greatest rainfall.
What is the rainforest?
100
This type of organism would provide the most energy per pound when eaten.
What is a producer?
100
The arrows in a food web represent this.
What is the flow of energy?
200
A group of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms.
What is a biome?
200
Two things that can change nitrogen in the air into a useable form.
What are bacteria in root nodules and lightning?
200
A biome that lacks trees, receives between 25cm and 75cm of rain a year and supports animals like lions and giraffes.
What is the grassland?
200
Organisms obtain energy for their bodies by carrying on this process.
What is cellular respiration?
200
Organisms that are needed to recycle materials in a food web.
What are decomposers?
300
A model that describes the feeding relationship between a producer and a single line of consumers.
What is a food chain?
300
The way humans obtain carbon.
What is we eat plants and animals?
300
Much of Canada is covered in pine and spruce forests. The winter is cold and long. The biome is a _________.
What is taiga?
300
The largest biome on the planet.
What is the marine biome?
300
Name an organism that is a primary consumer and what is means.
What is ? and it means they are a herbivore?
400
List two biotic factors and two abiotic factors that can be found in an ecosystem.
What is plants and animals, and air, water, soil, sun? A variety of answers are acceptable.
400
Draw a picture of the water cycle containing the words precipitation, condensation, transpiration and evaporation. Also name two things that can happen to rainwater.
See picture.
400
Each biome type and it's average rainfall.
What is desert (under 25cm), tundra (under 25cm), taiga (30-60cm), grassland (25 to 75cm), temperate forest (75cm to 150cm) and rainforest (over 250cm)?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Draw a picture of a food web that contains the following organisms: oak tree, grass, rabbit, deer, wolf, caterpillar, sparrow, snake and hawk.
400
Where saltwater meets freshwater and you find brackish water.
What is an estuary?
500
Humans burn large amounts of fossil fuels. The process is known as this and the way it can affect our environment.
What is combustion and greenhouse effect?
500
The reason available energy changes from the bottom to the top of a food chain.
What is the loss of energy due to heat and use by the organisms at each level?
500
Our biome is this, it is characterized by these trees and the definition of these trees means this.
What is temperate forest, deciduous and to shed their leaves yearly?
500
The process by which matter becomes concentrated in living things in a food chain.
What is biomagnification?
500
Draw a picture of the food pyramid and name the different trophic levels and what is found on those levels.