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BIOLOGY (Chapters 1,2&3) Daily Terms Entrance Card #3 - ANSWERS
Match each of the following definitions with its correct definition.
#1
A. A way of acting that involves taking personal responsibility
1. _B_ Environment
for the management and care of something.
B. All the living and non-living things that exist on Earth as well
2. _D_ Biodiversity
as their interactions with each other.
C. The ability of populations of organisms to continue to live, to
3. _C_ Sustainability
interact, and to reproduce indefinitely in an environment.
D. The number of different types of organisms in an area.
4. _F_ Components
5. _A_ Stewardship
6. _E_ System
7. _G_ Holistic approach
E.
F.
G.
Group of individual parts that interact as a whole to
accomplish a task.
Parts of a system.
Emphasizes an entire system (a way of studying our
environment that pieces together all of the individual parts
in order to understand the whole).
#2
1. _I_ Niche
2. _A_ Ecology
3. _F_ Population
4. _G_ Habitat
5. _H_ Community
6. _B_ Ecosystem
7. _C_ Biotic
8. _D_ Abiotic
9. _E_ Species
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
H.
I.
The study of how organisms interact with each other as well
as with their environment.
A complex, self-regulating system in which living things
interact with each other and non-living things.
Factors that are living such as animals, plants, bacteria and
fungi.
Factors that are non-living such as rocks and hours of
sunlight.
A group of similar organisms that can reproduce with each
other and their offspring can also reproduce.
A group of members of the same species that live in the
same area.
An area where organisms live.
Populations of different species that live and interact in an
area.
All the interactions of a given species with its ecosystem
(the role of an organism in a community).
#3
1. _J_ Atmosphere
2. _K_ Lithosphere
3. _E_ Tundra
4. _I_ Biosphere
5. _G_ Temperate
Coniferous Forest
6. _H_ Aquatic Biomes
7. _F_ Grasslands
8. _L_ Hydrosphere
9. _A_ Biome
10. _C_ Deciduous Forest
11. _D_ Boreal Forest
12. _B_ Terrestrial Biomes
A.
A large geographical region that contains similar ecosystems.
B.
Land-based biomes that are defined by their dominant
vegetation.
Biome that has trees, such as maples and oaks, that lose
their leaves in winter.
Biome that has trees, such as spruce and fir, that have cones
and needles.
Biome that has no trees but only small shrubs, hardy grasses,
mosses, and lichens.
Biome that has few trees but is covered in various kinds of
grasses and shrubs.
Biome that has different types of needle- and cone-bearing
trees than Boreal forest, such as Douglas fir, Sitka spruce,
and western hemlock.
Water-based biomes that consist of the marine biomes (high
salt content - oceans) and freshwater biomes (low salt
content – lakes rivers, streams, wetlands).
A part of our planet that includes water, land and air where
life exists.
The layer of gases that surrounds the Earth.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
H.
I.
J.
K.
L.
Earth’s solid outer layer (land). It includes the ridged crust
and the upper mantle, which lies below the crust.
All the water on Earth.