Vocabulary
Describes the variety of species in an area.
What is diversity?
An animal that feeds on other living things.
What is a predator?
The movement of nitrogen in different forms between living organisms and the nonliving parts of the ecosystem.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
Along with the grassland, this biome lacks large trees.
What is the desert?
An ecosystem has both living and nonliving parts. (What are these parts called?)
What is biotic and abiotic?
A group of organisms of the same species living together in an ecosystem.
What is a population?
An organism that eats other organisms.
What is a consumer?
An area in which living things interact with one another and with nonliving things.
What is an ecosystem?
This biome has the greatest change in diversity from season to season.
What is the deciduous forest?
Energy in an ecosystem originally comes from the___.
What is the sun?
All of the populations living in a ecosystem.
What is a community?
Connects the chains of energy transfer between organisms.
What is a food web?
An animal that predators eat.
What is a prey?
Along with the desert, this biome has plants with waxy leaves and shallow roots.
What is the grassland?
Two populations can not share the same____.
What is a niche
Provides all of the resources an organism needs to survive.
What is a habitat?
The gradual, long-term change of plant species in an ecosystem.
What is a succession?
A sequence of connected producers and consumers.
What is a food chain?
This biome has four distinct seasons.
What is the deciduous forest?
True or false. Nitrogen and corbon are abiotic resources that are recycled in the environment.
True
An organism's role in its environment.
What is a niche?
Photosynthesis is one step in this cycle.
What is the carbon cycle?
They supply most of the energy in a food chain or food web.
What are producers?
This biome is warm and wet all year.
What is the tropical rainforest?
Some energy is transferred from one step in a ____to the next.
What is a food chain?