Question | Answer |
abiotic | non-living things in an environment |
biotic | living organisms |
ecosystem | a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their environment |
environment | the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors surrounding and affecting a given organism at any time |
habitat | the natural environment of an organism; place that is natural for the life and growth of an organism |
population | all the individuals of one species in a given area |
precipitation | rain, snow, sleet, dew, etc, formed by condensation of water vapour in the atmosphere |
grassland | an area, as a prairie, in which the natural vegetation consists largely of perennial grasses, characteristic of subhumid and semiarid climates |
deciduous forest | a forest with trees and shrubs that shed their leaves annually |
biome | a complex biotic community characterized by distinctive plant and animal species and maintained under the climatic conditions of the region |
taiga | the coniferous evergreen forests of subarctic lands, covering vast areas of northern North America and Eurasia |
food chain | a series of organisms interrelated in their feeding habits, the smallest being fed upon by a larger one, which in turn feeds a still larger one |
food web | a series of organisms related by predator-prey and consumer-resource interactions; the entirety of interrelated food chains in an ecological community |
predator | any organism that exists by preying upon other organisms. |
prey | an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal |
carnivore | an animal that eats flesh. |
herbivore | an animal that feeds on grass and other plants |
omnivore | someone or something that eats both animal and plant |
scavenger | an animal or other organism that feeds on dead organic matter |
decomposer | an organism that breaks down the cells of dead plants and animals into simpler substances |
producer | something that makes something else, usually food |