Ecology
Place where an organism lives and makes its home
What is an habitat
Organisms that make their own food
What are autotrophs/producer
A food chain passes _______ from one living thing to another
What is energy
This humid biome is located between the tropics and along the equator and is home to the most numerous types of plants and animals
What is a tropical rainforest
A non-living component is known as
What is abiotic
An organism's job or role in their ecosystem
What is a niche
Organism that eats only plants
What is a herbivore
A food chain ALWAYS beings with ______
What is a producer
This biome is located in the far north and has permafrost
What is tundra
A living component is known as
What is biotic
The biological levels of organization includes
What is organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere
This is necessary for the organism to live, grow, and reproduce in their habitat
What is food, water, and shelter
All plants and animals in an area make up a/an _____
What is a community
This biome is found in the middle latitudes and is home to the largest animals on Earth
What is grassland or savanna
Name the three symbiotic relationships
What is mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem
Helps recycle nutrients in the ecosystem; fungi and bacteria are examples
What is a decomposer
The name for something that eats the producer is called a/an ______
What is a consumer
This biome can be found in Canada and has the boreal forest/coniferous forest
What is Taiga
The struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources is called
What is competition
Species depend on this for survival in their environment
What is one another
Name a way that a population can increase in size
What is the birth rate is greater than death rate
A food web is like a spider web, all things are connected.... What happens when all secondary consumers are pulled from the food web
What is the primary consumer will increase while the tertiary consumer decreases
This biome has much diversity and trees that lose their leaves in winter
What is deciduous forest
What is biosphere
What is the part of earth where life exists