ecosystems | energy transfer | food webs | vocabulary | interactions and relationships |
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What are 4 examples of biomes?
what is Deserts, forests, prairies, oceans
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What is The ability to do work?
what is energy
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What is A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
what is a food web
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What is the study of living things and their environments?
what is ecology
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Name 3 characteristics of living things
what is reproduce, have cells, DNA, use energy, grow, react to the environment, evolve, maintain homeostasis
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Why is climate important to a biome?
what is determines what types of plants and animals can live there.
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What law says Energy cannot be created or destroyed?
what is law of conservation of energy
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What is organisms that can make its own food?
what are Producers
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What is living and nonliving things in an environment, together with their interactions?
what is an ecosystem
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Name a food you eat that would be considered a producer.
what are Plant foods
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Which biome is the coldest?
what is tundra
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What is Energy that an object has which is waiting to be released? Example: Rollercoaster at the top of a hill.
what is potential energy
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What is Organisms that are dependent on producers?
what are consumers
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What is group of the same kind of organism living in a certain place?
what is population
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What produces carbon dioxide (CO2)?
what is plants or producers, cars, factories.
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For about how many months of the year are temperatures in the tundra below freezing?
what is 9 months
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What is Energy stored in atoms and molecules?
Example: Energy stored in food.
what is chemical energy
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What is animals that eat plants?
what are Herbivores
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What is the largest amount of a population that can be supported by an area?
what is carrying capacity
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Give a possible limiting factor for an aquarium.
what is oxygen, food, space, algae, light, heat, salt (for a salt water tank).
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What is unusual about sun in the tundra?
the sun doesn't set in the summer.
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What is Energy created by the movement of molecules in an object? Example: A boiling pot of water.
what is thermal energy
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Carnivores that eat another carnivores are also called as ____________
what are tertiary consumers
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What are conditions in the environment that put limits on where an organism can live?
what are limiting factors
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what is...
- is a type of symbiosis - living in close association of two different organisms - in this relationship one organism benefits and the other is UNAFFECTED, not 100%
what is commensalism
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