Organisms
What is a nonliving condition or thing, as climate or habitat, that influences or affects an ecosystem and the organisms in it?
abiotic factor
What elements make up water
hydrogen and oxygen
What is the type of climate zone that receives the most heat?
polar zone, temperate zone, tropical zone
tropical zone
What is a living thing that can make its' own food?
producer
When both benefit
mutualism
What is the process that plants use to make their food and get the energy they need?
photosynthesis
What is evaporation
the process of turning from liquid into vapor.
This is the name of the biome that has dry terrain, is very hot in the summer and very cold in the winter?
a desert
An organism that eats other organisms?
carnivore
A close relationship between 2 organisms of different species
symbiosis
The place where an organisms lives and finds everything it needs in order to survive.
Habitat
What percentage of Earth's water is salty water?
97%
This is the term used to describe the change in location of landforms, rocks, and sediment, due to wind and water.
erosion
The organisms that come first on a food web
producers
a tick on a deer
parasitism
Organize the following ecological levels:
population, ecosystem, individual, community, biosphere.
individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere
Any form of water that falls from the sky.
precipitation
Arrange in the correct order of size, from greatest to least, for these objects:
human, Sun, plant cell, Earth, atom, mouse, Milky Way
Milky Way, Sun, Earth, human, mouse, plant cell, atom
the name of the organisms that come second on a food web
primary consumers
when two organism fight over the same resource
competition
What gases do animals inhale and exhale in respiration?
inhale: oxygen
exhale: carbon dioxide
What is the place on Earth where most of the fresh water exists?
In the poles, as solid (ice)
What is climate?
The weather conditions over a long period.
What is the amount of energy that gets passed on to the next trophic level?
10%
a barnacle and a whale
commensalism