Taiga
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the letter of the matching definition next to each term.
1. biome
A. A community of organisms where there are several interrelated ___ chains
2. plants
B. The relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other
3. organisms
C. The quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time
4. population
D. The responsive adjustment of a sense organ to varying conditions (plural)
5. communities
E. Plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances
6. ecosystem
F. A major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing
7. adaptations
G. An organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition
8. animals
H. A position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it (plural)
9. kingdoms
I. A person who eats all kinds of foods
10. commensalism
J. Any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants
11. parasitism
K. A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment
12. autotroph
L. A group of people living in a particular local area (plural)
13. heterotroph
M. A domain in which something is dominant (plural)
14. herbivore
N. A group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
15. carnivore
O. The relation between two different kinds of organisms when one receives benefits from the other
16. omnivore
P. Living things like dogs and birds
17. precipitation
Q. A system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body (plural)
18. niches
R. A terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal
19. food web
S. Living things like trees and flowers that grow in soil