Biomes
Types of Organisms
The Cycling of Matter and Energy
Photosynthesis
Mystery Box
100
Biome that receives more than 80 inches of rain per year; located near the equator; has more than 40,000 plant species alone
What is the tropical rainforest?
100
Type of organism that produces its own food
What is a producer or autotroph?
100
A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains
What is a food web?
100
Process where producers make their own food
What is photosynthesis?
100
The variety of life of a given ecosystem
What is biodiversity?
200
No trees can grow here; plants include: moss, short grasses, and bushes; animals include: snowy owl, arctic fox, and caribou
What is the tundra?
200
Type of organism that has to get its food outside of itself
What is a consumer or heterotroph?
200
What do the arrows show in a food chain or food web?
What is the direction of energy flow?
200
The cell structure that helps plants perform photosynthesis
What are chloroplasts?
200
A category of ecosystems with a similar location on the globe with similar conditions and similar plant and animal life
What is a biome?
300
The largest biome in the world
What is the taiga?
300
This type of organism has the most energy in every ecosystem
What are the producers?
300
Kirsten is trying to show how much energy is lost throughout the course of a food chain. Which graph should she use?
What is an energy pyramid?
300
The ingredients of photosynthesis
What are carbon dioxide, water and sunlight?
300
The levels of organization from cell to biome
Hint: There are 9 total levels
What is:
cell-tissue-organ-organ system-organism-population-community-ecosystem-biome
400
Located near the South Pole, this desert is the largest desert in the world
What is Antarctica?
400
The other name for a primary consumer
What is a herbivore?
400
Considering this food chain:
grass---deer---coyote---bear---mushroom
If the grass obtains 1,000 Joules of energy from the sun, how many Joules of energy would the bear receive
What is 1 Joule of energy?
400
The products of photosynthesis
What are glucose (sugar), and oxygen?
400
A balanced ecosystem that can live for many years despite changes is said to have this
Acceptable answers are: biodiversity, ecological sustainability,
500
Biome with the highest ecological sustainability
What is the tropical rainforest?
500
Identify the tertiary consumer in the following food chain:
kelp---blue rockfish---sea lion---Great white shark
What is the Great white shark?
500
A bolt of lightning strikes a field and causes a grass fire. The fire burns the entire producer population. What will happen to the rest of the ecosystem and why?
Student answers may vary.
Answer should include info about how all other species will decrease because their food supply is affected.
500
The process that occurs in the mitochondria that is the opposite of photosynthesis
What is cellular respiration?
500
A change in the top of a food web that tumbles all the way to the bottom
Hint: Wolves being introduced to Yellowstone were an example of this concept.
What is a trophic cascade?