Food Chains/Food Webs
What is a producer?
A relationship between two or more kinds of organisms that lasts over time.
What is symbiosis?
An inherited trait or learned behavior that helps an organism survive in its surroundings
What is an adaptation?
A living thing or biotic factor.
What is an organism?
This biome has grasses, not trees. It's wetter than a desert, but too dry for most trees. It has rich soil for crops and is home to lots of herbivores and insects.
What is a grassland or Savanna (savannah)?
An organism that gets energy from eating other organisms (broad category)
What is a consumer?
A symbiotic relationship where one organisms benefits and the other is harmed.
What is parasitism?
Characteristics that blend in with the surrounding environment that increase an organisms chances of survival
What is an ecosystem?
This biome has 4 distinct seasons, leaves that change colors, rich soil, lots of birds, insects, deer, fox, and raccoons
What is the deciduous forest biome?
A type of consumer that gets its energy by eating other animals
What is a carnivore?
A symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
The resemblance of an organism to another organism or to its surroundings that give it a better chance to survive. Example: The king snake resembles the poisonous coral snake.
What is mimicry?
The population size an environment can feed and support.
What is the carrying capacity?
This is a large treeless biome where the ground is frozen all year.
What is the tundra biome?
A type of consumer that gets its energy by eating both plants and other animals.
What is an omnivore?
A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
A type of camouflage in which an organism matches the color, shape, and texture of its environment. Example: The stick bug looks like a twig on a branch.
What is protective resemblance?
All the living things that belong to the same group and live in the same area.
What is a population?
This is a hot, humid biome near the equator with heavy rainfall and a wide variety of life.
What is the tropical rainforest biome?
A type of consumer that only eats plants.
What is an herbivore?
An example of this type of relationship is the crocodile and the plover bird. The crocodile gets it's teeth cleaned and the plover bird gets food.
What is mutualism?
A type of camouflage in which the color of an animal helps it blend in with its background. Example: the artic hare has white fur to help it blend in with the snow.
What is protective coloration?
Any resource that restricts the growth of populations.
What is a limiting factor?
This is the largest land biome and has forests of conifers (tress with pinecones).
What is the taiga biome?