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Science CRCT Review
Science CRCT Ecology Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A group of similar organism whose members can mate and produce fertile offspring is called a __________________. | species |
| All the members of one species in one area are called the _______________. | population |
| All the different populations in an area is called the ______________________. | community |
| A(n)_____________________is a diagram that shows how energy moves from 1 level to another in a food web. | energy pyramid |
| A diagram that shows the order in which one organism eats another is called a _________________________. | food web |
| A pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem is called a ________________. | foodchain |
| A___________________________ is a type of biome that receives between 80-400 inches of rain per year. The average temperature is 70-85 degrees. It has 4 layers of plants, and has a very large variety of plants and animals that live there. | tropical rainforest |
| The ____________ is the largest overall biome in the world. The average temperature is below freezing 6 months of the year. Most precipitation comes in the summer months. The main type of tree is a conifer. | taiga |
| The_________ receives less than 10 inches or 25 cm of rain per year. There are 2 types of this biome. A hot and a cold. It is a very harsh biome to live in. | desert |
| An ___________ is a water biome that contains both salt and freshwater. | estuary |
| Lakes, ponds and rivers make up the ________________ biome. | fresh water |
| Any organism that can produce its own food is called a(n) ____________________. | autotroph |
| Any organism that can't make its own food is called a(n)________________. | heterotroph |
| Any organism that breaks down dead organisms into smaller chemicals that get returned to the soil as important nutrients is called _______________. | decomposer |
| The struggle of organisms for limited resources in a habitat is called _________________. | biosphere |
| The process where plants and some other organisms capture sunlight's energy and use it to make food from glucose and water is called ________________________________. | photosynthesis |
| A close relationship between 2 organisms which at least one of the organisms benefits is called _________________. | symbiosis |
| A type of symbiosis in which both organisms benefit ____________________. | mutualism |
| A symbiosis in where one of the organisms benefit and the other is neither helped or harmed is called ___________________. | commensalism |
| A type of symbiosis in which one organism lives on or inside another organism and benefits and the other is harmed is called ___________________. | parasitism |
| A carnivore that hunts and kills its prey is called _________________. | predator |
| A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms is called ______________________. | scavenger |
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