Level 1
What is the definition for Biotic?
Living Organisms
What animal feeds on dead plants or animals?
Scavengers
What ecosystem is dry and gets less than 10 inches of rain per year?
Desert Ecosystem
Which ecosystem is a large area of land that's covered in trees and other woody plants and filled with living animals.
Forest Ecosystem
What is the definition for Abiotic?
Non-living things
What are the 5 basic needs of living things?
Sunlight, water, air, habitat, and food
What is the name for organisms that eat dead plant and animal remains?
Detritivores
What organisms get their energy from the nutrients of dead organic matter?
Heterotrophic
What gasses are in the Earth's atmosphere that trap heat?
Greenhouse gas
What is the name of the process that allows plants to make their own food?
Photosynthesis
Which ecosystem has large expanses of natural land where very little rain falls and where little to no trees grow
Grassland Ecosystem
What is a carnivore?
An animal that mostly eats other animals
What is the definition of herbivore?
An animal that only eats plant based foods
What is the definition of micro-organisms?
Living things that are too small to see with your eye
Which ecosystem is a place in which the land is covered by water—salt, fresh, or somewhere in between—either seasonally or permanently
Wetland Ecosystem
What is the arctic ecosystem?
generally flat and treeless plains, the ground is permanently frozen in many areas.
Which ecosystem is made up of many different habitats that are within lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, springs and wetlands
Freshwater Ecosystem
What animal group eats both plant and meat based food?
Omnivore
What is the green parts of a plant that catches sunlight where photosynthesis happens
Chlorophyll
What is the term that describes a variety of things in a given place?
biodiversity