Biomes

Question 1

Biomes

Answer 1

a major ecological community such as grassland, tropical rain forest, or desert

Question 2

Energy pyramid

Answer 2

a model that shows the available amount of energy in each trophic layer in an ecosystem

Question 3

Food web

Answer 3

a model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things

Question 4

decomposer

Answer 4

organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms

Question 5

food chain

Answer 5

a model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things

Question 6

coniferous

Answer 6

plants that produce reproductive organs called cones

Question 7

consumer

Answer 7

an organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that does not produce its own food (related word: consume)

Question 8

Biome

Answer 8

a major ecological community such as grassland, tropical rain forest, or desert

Question 9

deciduous forest

Answer 9

a forest containing trees that lose their leaves each year

Question 10

Ecology

Answer 10

the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.

Question 11

Cycle

Answer 11

a process that repeats (related word: cyclic)

Question 12

nitrogen

Answer 12

an element that makes up most of the air near Earth’s surface: nitrogen is a gas at room temperature

Question 13

biotic

Answer 13

all of the living parts of an ecosystem

Question 14

Water Cycle

Answer 14

the continual movement of water between the land, ocean, and the air

Question 15

Abiotic Factor

Answer 15

all of the nonliving parts of an ecosystem

Question 16

producer

Answer 16

an organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants or animals

Question 17

Carbon Cycle

Answer 17

a natural cycle in which carbon compounds, mainly carbon dioxide, are incorporated into living tissue through photosynthesis and returned to the atmosphere by respiration, decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels

Question 18

carbon cycle

Answer 18

a natural cycle in which carbon compounds, mainly carbon dioxide, are incorporated into living tissue through photosynthesis and returned to the atmosphere by respiration, decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels

Question 19

prey

Answer 19

an animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal

Question 20

succession

Answer 20

the sequence of communities that develop in an area.