BIOMES

Tropical Rainforest
_______________________ of any
biome
Threatened by
______________________
Receives the most
___________________
Abiotic Factors:

Plant Adaptations
Adaptations

Tundra
_________________ biodiversity
____________________ biome
Abiotic Factors:

Plant Adaptations
Adaptations

Animal

Animal

Desert
_______________________
biodiversity
____________ amount of rainfall

Temperate/Deciduous Forest
Biome we
_________________________
Abiotic Factors:

Abiotic Factors:

Plant Adaptations
Adaptations

Animal

Grassland
Abiotic Factors:

Plant Adaptations
Adaptations

Plant Adaptations
Adaptations

Animal

Taiga
Abiotic Factors:

Animal

Plant Adaptations
Adaptations

Animal

**WILL NOT BE TESTED OVER THIS BIOME**

What is a biotic factor?

What is an abiotic factor?

Biotic or Abiotic?
____
____
____
____
____

Whale
Soil
Water
Fish
Air

____
____
____
____
____

Rabbit
Sunlight
Lichen
Plants
Clouds

Using the figure, list the correct biome to the corresponding number:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Levels of Ecology

FOOD CHAINS AND FOOD WEBS

_________________________
___________ way to show energy
flow
Organisms transfer __________
by eating and being eaten
Arrows show where __________
goes
Straight line food chains are
rare

___________________________
Complex, more ___________
picture of energy flow
Arrows show where energy goes

Use the food web to answer the following questions:

1. Identify the consumers using these letters:
CCarnivore
OOmnivore
HHerbivore
DDetritivore
2. Identify which organisms are
producers.________________________________________________________________
3. Identify which organisms are autotrophs.
_______________________________________________________________
4. Identify which organism are heterotrophs.
______________________________________________________________
5. What would happen to the duck population if the crickets were to die out due to disease?

6. How would the snake be affected if the bird (hawk) population were to increase?

ECOLOGICAL PYRAMIDS

Energy Pyramid
Shows ____________ amount of
_____________ at the base.
Each trophic level up has
__________ energy.
______ of energy moves _____ each
level.

Biomass Pyramid

Pyramid of Numbers

Compares the __________ of

organisms at each trophic level.

Compares the __________ of

biological material at each
trophic level.

Symbiotic Relationships

A close long-term _____________ between two organisms of different

Symbiosis
At least one organism ________________.

Mutualism

Commensalism

Parasitism

____________________________________
___________________________________
____________________________________
_______ /________
Example:

Habitat vs. Niche

_______ /________
Example:

_______ /________
Example:

_________________________ is just where an organism ____________.

A ____________________ can be considered an organisms
_____________________.
__________________ is the ___________ an organism plays in its habitat.
A _________________ can be considered an organisms ___________. Includes
what they ________, where they find _________, when/where they ____________,
how/when they ___________________, etc.
Identify the following as the organisms habitat or niche.

Organism

Scenario
Lives in the arctic

Polar bear
Hunts for seals through the ice

Squirrel

Buries nuts underground to save for

winter
Lives in a forest
Flowers in the spring

Oak Tree
Located in Arkansas
Lives in the rainforest
Bowerbirds Builds an elaborate nest of sticks and
decorates it with bright objects to
attract a mate

Habitat or
Niche?