Ecosystems & Biomes

What is a Biotic Factor?

• any non-living thing in an environment

• any living thing in an environment

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What is an Abiotic Factor?

• any living thing in an environment

• any non-living thing in an environment

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is an ecosystem?

• Interactions between living and nonliving things in an environment

• the place where an organism lives

What is a habitat?

• Interactions between living and nonliving things in an environment

• the place where an organism lives

What is a population?

• all the members of a species that live in the same place

• all the populations in an ecosystem

What is a community?

• the place where an organism lives

• all the populations in an ecosystem

What is a biome?

• Interactions between living and nonliving things in an environment

• A large ecosystem with its own kind of climate, soil, and living things

What is a grassland?

• a biome with very little rainfall

• a biome where the main kind of plant is grass

What is a deciduous forest?

• a forest biome with trees that lose their leaves each year

• a biome that is hot and humid with a lot of rainfall

What is a tropical rainforest?

• a biome with very little rainfall

• a biome that is hot and humid with a lot of rainfall