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Complete Cycles
Never-Ending Niches
Biome Bonanza
The Zones, the Zones..
Food Chain Fun
100
Autotrophs get their energy from this.
What is the Sun?
100
These determine a specie's niche.
What are abiotic factors?
100
This biome is characterized by low precipitation and high latitudes.
What is tundra?
100
The largest zone of the ocean is this.
What is the oceanic zone?
100
This is how a food chain is different from a food web.
What is a food web contains multiple food chains?
200
Evaporation off of plants is known as this.
What is transpiration?
200
This is the amount of organisms a habitat can sustain.
What is carrying capacity?
200
This biome is characterized by trees like oak, maple, and cedar.
What is deciduous?
200
The zone of water that does not get any sunlight is called this.
What is aphotic?
200
This is the name for the organisms that consume only producers in an ecosystem.
What are primary consumers?
300
Large amounts of carbon dioxide are absorbed by this.
What are oceans?
300
Two species competing for the same food source is known as this.
What is competitive exclusion?
300
This biome is characterized by animals like bears, moose, and trees like the evergreen.
What is coniferous?
300
This is the most productive zone in the world's oceans.
What is the neritic zone?
300
This is the amount of energy that is transferred from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10%?
400
Earthworms and fungi are examples of these.
What are decomposers?
400
The similarity in bird and bat wings is an example of this.
What is convergent evolution?
400
This biome is very hot during the day and very cold at night.
What is desert?
400
A salt marsh is an example of an ecosystem in this zone.
What is the intertidal zone?
400
This is the definition of a species.
What is a group of organisms so similar that they breed and produce fertile offspring?
500
Nitrogen is a key element in the formation of this substance necessary to living things.
What are amino acids?
500
This is an example of coevolution.
What is caterpillar and leaf, tree and ants, flowers and bees?
500
This biome is characterized by average rainfall and is also referred to as the steppe.
What is grassland?
500
An estuary is an example of an ecosystem in this zone.
What is the neritic zone?
500
Communities of organisms coexist in these organized and balanced areas.
What is an ecosystem?