Download Ecosystem Vocabulary Quiz 1 1. Biome – one of Earth`s large

Ecosystem Vocabulary
Quiz 1
1. Biome – one of Earth’s large ecosystems, with
its own kind of climate, soil, plants and animals.
2. Climate – the average weather pattern of a
region (temperature and precipitation).
3. Food chain – the path of the energy in food
from one organism to another.
Quiz 2
1. Geography – shape of the land
2. Endangered – situation where a species of
animal is threatened by extinction.
3. Predator – a living thing that hunts other living
things for food.
4. Prey – a living thing that is hunted for food.
5. Omnivore – an animal that eats both plants and
animals.
6. Herbivore – an animal that eats plants, algae
and other producers.
7. Carnivore – an animal that eats another animal.
8. Adaptation – a characteristic that enables a
living thing to survive in its environment.
9. Ecosystem – all the living and nonliving things
in an area and their interactions with each
other.
10. Scavenger – a meat-eating animal that feeds on
the remains of dead animals.
Quiz 3
1. Population – all the members of one species in
an area.
2. Producer – any of the plants and algae that
produce oxygen and food that animals need.
3. Consumer – any animal that eats plants or eats
other plant-eating animals.
4. Decomposer – any of the fungi or bacteria that
break down dead plants and animals into useful
things like minerals and rich soil.
5. Limiting factor – anything that controls the
growth or survival of a population.
Quiz 4
1. Deciduous Forest – a forest biome with many
kinds of trees that lose their leaves each
autumn.
2. Taiga – a cool, forest biome of conifers in the
upper Northern Hemisphere.
3. Tundra – a cold, treeless biome of the far
north, marked by spongy topsoil.
4. Desert – a sand or rocky biome with little
precipitation and little plant life.
5. Grasslands – a biome where grasses, not trees,
are the main plant life. Prairies are one kind of
grassland region as well as savannahs.
6. Estuary – a biome where fresh water meets salt
water and animals and plants have special
adaptations to survive in the mixture of water.
7. Tropical Rain Forest – a hot, humid biome near
the equator, with much rainfall and a wide
variety of life.
8. Marine – ocean, the largest biome, it is divided
into several sections of plants and animals that
live in a salt water environment.
9. Freshwater – lakes, streams, rivers, have little
salt in them. They are freshwater ecosystems.
10. Wetlands - marshes, swamps and bogs
Quiz 5
1. Abiotic Factor – a nonliving part of an
ecosystem
2. Biotic Factor – a living part of an ecosystem.
3. Community – all the populations living in an
area.
4. Habitat – the area in which an organism lives.
5. Niche – the role an organism has in its
ecosystem.
6. Symbiosis – a relationship between two kinds
of organisms over time.
7. Mutualism – a relationship between two kinds
of organisms that benefits both.
8. Parasitism – a relationship in which one kind of
organism lives on and may harm another.
9. Commensalism – a relationship between two
kinds of organisms that benefits one without
harming the other.
10. Permafrost – permanently frozen soil as found
in the tundra.
11. Timberline – the northern edge of a habitat
where trees begin to be able to grow.
12. Deforestation – the cutting and removal of all
trees from an area.
13. Food web – the overlapping food chains in an
ecosystem.