Parts of a Food Chain
Potpourri
Biomes (Char.)
Levels of Organization
Biomes (Animals)
100
Animals who eat plants.
What is Herbivore
100
A group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing offspring with similar characteristics.
What is Species
100
A hot, humid biome near the equator, with much rainfall and a wide variety of life.
What is Tropical Rain Forest
100
Any living thing.
What is Organism
100
More species of insects, reptiles, and amphibians than any place else; monkeys, other small and large mammals, including in some places elephants, all sorts of colorful birds.
What is Tropical Rain Forest
200
Return the nutrients that are in a living thing to the soil.
What is Decomposer
200
The home of a living thing.
What is Habitat
200
A cool forest biome of conifers in the upper Northern Hemisphere.
What is Taiga
200
All the living things in an ecosystem.
What is Community
200
Musk oxen, migrating caribou, arctic foxes, weasels, snowshoe hares, owls, hawks, various rodents, occasional polar bear.
What is Tundra
300
Animals who only eat other.
What is Carnivore
300
Living portion of an ecosystem
What is Biotic Factor
300
A sandy or rocky biome, with little precipitation and little plant life.
What is Desert
300
All the members of a single type of organism in an ecosystem.
What is Population
300
Elephants, lions, zebras, giraffes
What is African Grassland
400
An animal that captures and eats other animals
What is Predator
400
Non-living portion of an ecosystem
What is Abiotic Factor
400
A forest biome with many kinds of trees that lose their leaves each autumn.
What is Deciduous Forest
400
All the living and non-living things in an environment and all their interactions.
What is Ecosystem.
400
Rodents, snowshoe hares, lynx, sables, ermine, caribou, bears, wolves, birds in summer.
What is Taiga
500
Animals who eat both plants and animals.
What is Omnivore
500
How an organism or population responds to the distribution of resources and competitors and how it in turn alters those same factors
What is Niche
500
A biome where grasses, not trees, are the main plant life. Prairies are one kind of grassland region.
What is Grassland
500
One of Earth’s large ecosystems, with its own kind of climate, soil, plants, and animals.
What is Biome
500
Prairie dogs, foxes, small mammals, snakes, insects, various birds.
What is American Grassland