Ch 4 Organization of Life
living and nonliving organisms who live together
What is an Ecosystem.
Grass --> Rabbit --> Fox
In this food chain, what type of organism is the grass?
What is a Producer
The biome with the most biodiversity
What is the Rainforest
Aquatic organisms that bread down dead organisms
What are Decomposers
Organisms that have a backbone.
Who are Vertebrates
nonliving parts of an ecoystem
what is Abiotic Factor
Organisms that consumer producers
the biome that is characterized by a layer of permafrost
What is the Tundra
Areas of land periodically under water
What are Wetlands
the majority of Earth's organisms depend on THIS for energy
What is the Sun
This scientist is knows as the Father of Evolution
Who is Charles Darwin
what is a Food Web
The African Biome that you would find lions, giraffes, and elephants.
What is the Savanna
The shallow zone in a lake where light can reach the bottom.
What is the Littoral Zone
The type of succession that occurs on surfaces where no ecosystem existed before
What is Primary Succession
The process by which individuals with more favorable traits survive and reproduce
What is Natural Selection
The name of the consumer at the top of an energy pyramid
Top preditor or tertiary consumer
This biome is characterized by more broad-leafed evergreen shrubs than by evergreen trees.
What is the Chaparral
3 factors that determine which organisms live where
What are: temperature, sunlight, oxygen
(will also accept salinity)
A common adaptation of animals in the chapparal that allows animals to blend into the environment.
What is: camouflage
Once an organism does not respond to a chemical that could harm/destroy it, the organism is said to become ________.
What is resistant.
Grass --> Rabbit --> Fox
In this food chain, what would happen to the fox and grass population if the rabbit population died?
What is: grass increase, fox decrease
These types of plants in the desert biome are adapted to obtain and conserve water.
What are succulants.
the area in which fresh water and salt water meet and mix
What is an Estuary
the region of a population graph that represents conditions where organisms cannot tolerate the condition
What is the Zone of Intolerance