Biomes RelationshipsVocabulary Food chains, webs, pyramids chance

The biome we live in is _______.

Deciduous forest

Another name for pine forest is__________.

Coniferous forest

This biome is hot, wet and has lots of trees.

Tropical rain forest

Describe the tundra.

Almost permanently frozen, only mosses and lichens grow there.

Name 4 out of the 6 biomes.

coniferous forest deciduous forest tropical rain forest tundra desert grassland

Predators _______ prey.

eat or hunt

Parasites help or hurt their hosts?

hurt

Sea anemones and clown fish are examples of _______.

mutualism

Primary consumers eat _______.

producers

Secondary consumers eat _____ _______.

Primary consumers

The study of living things and their environments is called _______.

ecology

Environment means …

Everything that surrounds an organism.

Define organism.

Any living thing.

Overall weather over a long period of time is _______.

climate

A large area of Earth that contains certain plant and animal communities is ______.

biome

Grass --> _______ --> wolf Name one possible organism to fill in the blank.

Grasshopper mouse deer

In a food chain or web; the arrow shows what?

How the energy moves through the environment.

In a food pyramid the most energy is at the _____.

bottom

Name one food chain from this food web.

Algae-->fish-->human grass-->rabbit-->hawk or any other chain

Name the four levels in an energy pyramid, in order, top to bottom or bottom to top.

Tertiary consumer secondary consumer primary consumer producer

A habitat is _____.

where an organism lives.

An organism’s niche is its ___.

job

All the populations of organisms living in one area is called a ___________.

community

Taiga is another name for which biome?

Coniferous forest

The maximum number of organisms an ecosystem can support is called its _______ ________.

Carrying capacity