Vocabulary
A balanced community of biotic and abiotic things.
What is an ecosystem?
The biome that is hot and wet, lots of plants and trees, as well as sloths, monkeys and snakes live here.
What is a rainforest?
This type of organism is the first step of a food chain or web. It makes its food from the sun. An example of this type of organism is a plant.
What is a producer?
This biome has permafrost and caribou.
Scientific word for "living."
What is biotic?
The biome that is hot and dry, lots of grass, very few trees, zebras and antelopes live here.
What is a Savannah?
These organisms get their energy from producers, or other animals.
What is a consumer?
The result of imbalance in an ecosystem.
One or more species may become extinct.
The difference between organism and population.
What is that an organism is a single living thing, and a population is all of the organisms within the ecosystem?
The biome of moderate climate and moderate rainfall. Oak and maple trees, as well as deer, hawks and foxes live here.
What is a deciduous (or temperate) forest?
What comes next in a food chain after grass makes food from the sun, then a rabbit eats the grass.
What is a wolf, bear, snake, or hawk? (any predator is acceptable)
Importance of interactions in an ecosystem.
What is energy transfer?
The difference between grassland and savannah.
What is that they are located on different continents (N. America and Africa).
In this biome, the summers are warm, and the winters are cold. Coniferous trees, lynx, bobcats and moose live here.
What is taiga,or boreal forest?
Animals that eat dead organisms are known as this.
What is a decomposer?
Nonliving factors
What is abiotic?
The difference between grassland and savannah.
What is they are located on different continents (N. America and Africa)?
This biome has warm summers and cold winters with lots of snow. Coniferous (evergreen) trees, lynx, bobcats and moose live here.
What is taiga, or boreal forest?
These organisms eat dead organisms, and are important to the balance of the ecosystem.
What are decomposers?
The reason why rainforests are important to the earth.