This is the number of a species of plant or animal living in a particular area.
What is a population?
100
Those animals who eat both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
100
This is the first or very top layer after the emergent layer.
What is the canopy?
100
These trees have broad leaves that are shed each autumn and grow new leaves in the spring.
What are deciduous trees?
200
All the animals in an ecosystem are called this.
What is fauna?
200
All of the different populations living in an area.
What is a community?
200
Those animals which only eat other animals.
What are carnivores?
200
This layer consists of two types of trees. One will continue to grow to become part of the canopy and others will be shorter and are designed to grow with less light.
What is the understory?
200
These trees bear seeds in cones instead of having flowers and fruit. They do not lose their leaves in the fall.
What are coniferous trees?
300
This includes the atmosphere, the surface of the earth, a small part of the crust of the earth and the water that covers most of our planet.
What is the biosphere?
300
These are plants that produce its own food by changing sunlight into energy.
What is a producer?
300
The interactions among many food chains create this.
What is a food web?
300
This is the lowest layer of the forest. The plants that exist here are lichens, mosses and fungi.
What is the floor?
300
These forests can be found in Japan, eastern China, western Europe, Asia, eastern Australia and easter North America.
What are Deciduous Forests?
400
This describes things which are alive.
What is a biotic?
400
Animals that eat primarily plants.
What is a herbivore?
400
These organisms eat dead plants and animals.
What are scavengers?
400
This layer is above the floor and includes small plants such as grass, flowers, ferns and seedlings.
What is the herb layer.
400
Deciduous forests are often very cold in the winter, so God designed animals to do this during this time, so they would use less energy and needing less food.
What is hibernation?
500
This describes things that are not alive.
What is abiotic?
500
This is an organism that does not produce its own food, and instead eats plants or other animals.
What is consumer?
500
These exist at the very end of a food chain. They eat dead plant and animal material and break it back down into basic elements.
What decomposers?
500
Under the understory your find shorter plants including many varieties of shrubs.
What is the shrub layer?
500
Common trees that exist in this type of forest include spruce, fir and pine trees.