Biosphere

Question 1

What are ecosystems?

Answer 1

A community of living and non-living things that interact in the habitat where they live

Question 2

What is the name for living parts of ecosystems?

Answer 2

Biotic (factors)

Question 3

What is the name for non-living parts of ecosystems?

Answer 3

Abiotic

Question 4

What is a biome?

Answer 4

A global sized ecosystem

Question 5

What is a temperate climate?

Answer 5

A climate with mild temperatures

Question 6

What does Abscission mean?

Answer 6

The natural detachment of a plant

Question 7

What is the biosphere?

Answer 7

The worldwide sum of all ecosystems

Question 8

What are the 8 main biomes?

Answer 8

Tundra (Arctic and Alpine)
Taiga (Boreal/Coniferous Forest)
Temperate Deciduous Forest
Tropical Rainforest
Desert (Hot and Cold)
Mediterranean (Chaparral)
Tropical Grassland
Temperate Grassland

Question 9

What is the tropical rainforest biome?

Answer 9

Dense forest with high rainfall

Question 10

What is the grassland biome?

Answer 10

Large, open area covered with grass

Question 11

What is the desert biome?

Answer 11

Dry open space with few plants

Question 12

What does deciduous mean?

Answer 12

Forests with trees that lose their leaves

Question 13

What is the tundra?

Answer 13

A vast, cold, treeless environment

Question 14

What is the coniferous forest biome?

Answer 14

Dense forest with high rainfall

Question 15

What is the chaparral biome?

Answer 15

Dense forest with tangled undergrowth

Question 16

What does savannah mean?

Answer 16

A grassy plain with very few trees

Question 17

What is the alpine biome?

Answer 17

A cold, high altitude place that is mountainous

Question 18

What are food webs?

Answer 18

Interlinked food chains

Question 19

What are food chains?

Answer 19

a series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food

Question 20

What is an open system?

Answer 20

A system that doesn’t repeat and only occurs once

Question 21

What is a closed system?

Answer 21

A system that repeats itself

Question 22

What are carnivores?

Answer 22

Animals that eat meat

Question 23

What is a herbivore?

Answer 23

An herbivore is an organism that mostly feeds on plants

Question 24

What are consumers?

Answer 24

Organisms that have to eat other organisms to get energy

Question 25

What are producers?

Answer 25

Animals that produce their own energy

Question 26

What are tropic levels?

Answer 26

The position of an organism in the food chain

Question 27

What are decomposers?

Answer 27

Decomposers are organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms

Question 28

What is Desertification?

Answer 28

It is when people attempt to increase how much desert space we have

Question 29

What is deforestation?

Answer 29

Trying to reduce how much forest space we have

Question 30

What is the nutrient cycle?

Answer 30

The process that encompasses the movement of nutrients from the physical environment to living organisms and back to the environment

Question 31

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Answer 31

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Question 32

What factors can influence biomes?

Answer 32

Temperature
Soils
Rainfall
Latitude
Altitude
Continentality

Question 33

What scales can an ecosystem occur at?

Answer 33

Micro
Meso
Macro