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Ecology
Ecosystem Energy
Food Web
Symbiosis
Biomes
100
A living thing in an ecosystem
What is Biotic?
100
An organism that can capture energy, and use it to make nutrients.
What is a Producer?
100
Food Webs and Food Chains begin with this.
What is Photosynthesis?
100
A close relationship between 2 organisms in which at least one of them is helped.
What is Symbiosis?
100
Receives very little rainfall throughout the year. Vegetation is sparse.
What is the Desert?
200
Consists of organisms that have common features and can interbreed and produce offspring.
What is Species?
200
An organism that cannot make it's own nutrients...it must eat another organism to obtain nutrients.
What is a Consumer?
200
These organisms are the basis of all food webs and food chains because they can make their own food.
What are Plants?
200
An example is a flea on a dog.
What is a Parasite?
200
Made up of very tall trees with broad leaves that form a canopy. Contains many species of plants and animals.
What is the Rainforest?
300
Consists of all members of the same species that live in the same place. ex all squirrels that live in Altoona.
What is a Population?
300
A consumer that eats only plants.
What is a Herbivore?
300
This is a diagram that shows the interconnections between food chains in a given Biome.
What is a Food Web?
300
The organism that is harmed in a parasitic relationship.
What is the Host?
300
Characterized by trees that do not lose their leaves in cold weather.
What is the Boreal or Taiga Forest?
400
Consists of all the organisms within a community and the non-living things that they interact with.
What is an ecosystem?
400
A consumer that eats dead animals.
What is a Scavenger?
400
A diagram showing producer, primary consumer and secondary consumer.
What is a food chain?
400
Bacteria that live in the human intestine and make vitamins, this type of relationship benefits both bacteria and humans.
What is Mutualism?
400
Made up of trees that lose their leaves in the fall. Bears, deer, rabbits and squirrels live here.
What is The Deciduous Forest?
500
Includes all the different populations that live in the same place.
What is a Community?
500
A consumer that eats a primary consumer.
What is a Secondary Consumer?
500
Without these organisms the forest would be hard to move through and nutrients and elements and compounds would not get recycled in nature.
What are Decomposers?
500
A bird's relationship with the tree it builds it's nest in.
What is Commensalism?
500
Very very cold conditions and little vegetation. Oxen and wolves live here.
What is the Tundra?