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Parts of an Ecosystem
Energy Flow
Nutrient Cycling
Limiting Factors
Biomes & Succession
100
The term to refer to the non-living part of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
100
The name of organisms like plants that form the base of food chains.
What are producers?
100
The name of organisms that get their food by consuming waste and dead organisms.
What are decomposers?
100
Any organism that exists by hunting other organisms.
What are predators?
100

The terrestrial biome with the highest biodiversity

What is a tropical rainforest?

200
The term that refers to the living part of an ecosystem.
What is biotic?
200
The process by which plants capture the sun's energy and turn it into glucose (food).
What is photosynthesis?
200
The series of processes that moves water through the environment.
What is the water cycle?
200
The maximum population size of a species that a given ecosystem can sustain.
What is carrying capacity?
200

The first species to colonize an area during primary succession (like lichens and mosses).

What is a pioneer species?

300
The term for a land based ecosystem.
What is terrestrial?
300
The process by which consumers get energy.
What is cellular respiration?
300
The series of processes that moves carbon compounds throughout the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere.
What is the carbon cycle?
300
Brainworms cause a degenerative condition in moose. This often leads to their death. This is an example of which biotic limiting factor.
What is parasitism?
300

A cold, treeless biome with permafrost and low biodiversity.

What is the tundra?

400
The 3 categories all living things in an ecosystem can be placed in.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
400
A linear network of organisms.
What are food chains?
400
The name of a nutrient that is used for making proteins.
What is nitrogen?
400

___________________ is a key limiting factor in aquatic ecosystems.

What is oxygen?

400

The type of plants you may find in a coniferous forest

What are evergreen trees/conifers?

500
Name 3 abiotic parts of the Arctic ecosystem.
What are light, weather, and soil?
500
A graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.
What is a food web?
500
Coal, limestone, ocean sediments, oil and natural gas are examples of ___________________.
What are carbon deposits?
500
An abiotic factor that plants compete with each other for.
What is light or water?
500

Describe an estuary

Where a freshwater river meets the saltwater ocean