A quick tour of biome and climate vocabulary

1. A Few Terms from Mr. G!

2. Biomes & Populations
• Biome: large naturally occurring
communities of flora (plants) and fauna
(animals) occupying a major habitat
• Population: Group of organisms of the
same species that live in the same area

3. Plant & Animal Life
• Plants are
PRODUCERS:
Organisms that
make their own
food
• Animals are
CONSUMERS:
Organisms that eat
other organisms to
get energy

4. Abiotic & Biotic Factors
• Abiotic factors:
Any nonliving part
of the environment
that affects
organisms
• Biotic factors:
Any living part of
the environment
that affects
organisms

5. Prey & Predators
• Prey: Organism
that is captured
and fed upon by
another organism.
• Predator:
Organism that
captures and feeds
on another
organism.

6. Food Chains & Food Webs
• Food chain: The
sequence of who
eats whom in the
biological
community
• Food web:
Complex
interactions of food
chains that interact
in an ecosystem

7. Adaptations of Animals
• Warning
colorization:
conspicuous
coloring that warns
a predator that an
animal tastes bad
or is poisonous

8. Adaptation of Animals
• Mimicry: the
evolution of one
species to look like
another which is
poisonous, thus
fooling its
predators into
leaving it alone

9. Adaptations of Animals
• Other Adaptations:
Other ways of
fooling predators,
including
camouflage;
migration;
hibernation; bodily
expansion; and
poisonous, painful
or bad-tasting
exterior.

10. Natural & Human Impact
• Natural Impact:
Impact on a
climate or biome
that occurs
naturally, such as
natural disasters,
storms, droughts,
invasive species,
and disease.

11. Natural & Human Impact
• Human Impact:
Impact on a
climate or biome
caused by
humans, such as
pollution, human
expansion,
agriculture, global
warming, species
extinction, etc.

12. Any Questions?