Ecosystems with similar climate and vegetation make up this.
What is a biome?
100
A ___________________ shows overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
100
Temperature and precipitation determine the ____________ of an area.
What is a climate?
100
The flow of energy from producer to first-level consumer to second-level consumer can be shown using this.
What is a food chain?
100
Trees that lose their leaves in cool fall weather are common where?
What is temperate rain forests?
200
Different populations of living things found in the same area at the same time form are this.
What is a community?
200
Zebras are an example of ____________________ of living things in an ecosystem.
What is a population?
200
The ______________ biome has long, severe winters and short, cool summers.
What is a taiga?
200
About ____________ percent of the energy available at one level of an energy pyramid passes to the next level.
What is 10 percent?
200
What is the difference between an ecosystem and a community?
What is an ecosystem has living and non living things, a community is just living things?
300
This is made up of all living and nonliving things.
What is an ecosystem?
300
Very limited populations survive in Earth's driest what?
What is deserts?
300
Prairies and savannas are the two main types of what biome.
What is grasslands.
300
Which animal receives more energy from a producer: a first or second level consumer?
What is a first level consumer?
300
An example of a first-level consumer.
What is a caterpillar?
400
This consists of all the members of the same type of organism that live in an ecosystem.
What is a population?
400
What are the three classifications of marine biomes?
What is Intertidal, near-shore, and open ocean?
400
__________________ has a layer of frozen ground called permafrost.
What is a tundra?
400
If you wanted to show energy flow in an ecosystem, would it be best to use a food chain or a food web? Explain.
What is a food web. It shows all the ways energy can flow.
400
An example of a second-level consumer.
What is a bird?
500
A__________________makes its own food from raw materials and energy.
What is a producer?
500
Are bacteria good or bad for the environment? Why
What is they are good. They break down dead animals and return the materials to the soil. This can be used by new plants and animals. Without bacteria, there would be no new organisms.
500
Tropical rain forests are _________________ year round.