Unit 3- Living in Harmony

Question 1

Abiotic

Answer 1

Any nonliving component of an ecosystem

Question 2

Aquatic

Answer 2

Living in water

Question 3

Biome

Answer 3

a geographic area characterized by specific kinds of plants and animals

Question 4

Biotic

Answer 4

A living component of an ecosystem.

Question 5

Calorie

Answer 5

A quantity of food capable of producing such an amount of energy.

Question 6

Carnivore

Answer 6

A consumer that eats other consumers.

Question 7

Climate

Answer 7

The sum total of all atmospheric or meteorological influences, principally temperature, moisture, wind, pressure, and evaporation, which combine to characterize a region and give it individuality by influencing the nature of its landforms, soils, vegetation, and land use.

Question 8

Consumer

Answer 8

An organism, usually an animal that feeds on plants or other animals.

Question 9

Desert

Answer 9

An area where rainfall averages less than 25 cm per year.

Question 10

Ecology

Answer 10

The study of the relationship between organisms and their environment.

Question 11

Ecosystem

Answer 11

All the biotic and abiotic components of an environment.

Question 12

Energy

Answer 12

The capacity for work or vigorous activity.

Question 13

Energy Pyramid

Answer 13

A depiction of the amount of energy in each trophic level of an ecosystem.

Question 14

Environment

Answer 14

The sum total of all the external conditions that may act upon an organism or community to influence its development or existence.

Question 15

Fauna

Answer 15

The total wild animal life of an area in the broadest sense, including wild animals, birds, fish, reptiles, insects, and smaller animal life.

Question 16

Flora

Answer 16

The aggregate of plants that grow without cultivation in a given area within a stated period of time.

Question 17

Food Chain

Answer 17

Pathway beginning with producers along which energy is transferred from trophic level to trophic level.

Question 18

Food Web

Answer 18

The interconnected food chains in an ecosystem.

Question 19

Grassland

Answer 19

A region in which the vegetation is mainly grass or other herbaceous plants. Climate conditions are intermediate between those of forest regions and of deserts.

Question 20

Herbivore

Answer 20

A consumer that eats primary producers.

Question 21

Interdependence

Answer 21

Mutually dependent; depending on each other.

Question 22

Metabolism

Answer 22

The sum of all chemical processes in living things.

Question 23

Omnivore

Answer 23

An animal that eats both plants and animals.

Question 24

Organism

Answer 24

Any living individual whether plant or animal.

Question 25

Photosynthesis

Answer 25

Process by which green plants, using chlorophyll and the energy of sunlight, produce carbohydrates from water and carbon dioxide, and release oxygen.

Question 26

Producer

Answer 26

An organism, as a plant, that is able to produce its own food from inorganic substances.

Question 27

Taiga

Answer 27

Forested biome characterized by cone-bearing evergreen trees.

Question 28

Temperate deciduous forest

Answer 28

A forest characterized by trees that shed their leaves in the fall.

Question 29

Trophic level

Answer 29

A feeding level in an ecosystem.

Question 30

Tropical forest

Answer 30

A biome near the equator characterized by large amounts of rain and sunlight.

Question 31

Tundra

Answer 31

A biome of low-growing vegetation.