Cut-out cards Matching sheet

Print double-sided (flip on the long edge) and cut along the dashed lines. Fronts and backs line up.

Taiga · Fronts · page 1

biome
plants
organisms
population
communities
ecosystem
adaptations
animals

Taiga · Backs · page 1

Living things like trees and flowers that grow in soil
A major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing
A group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
A system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body (plural)
A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment
A group of people living in a particular local area (plural)
Living things like dogs and birds
The responsive adjustment of a sense organ to varying conditions (plural)

Taiga · Fronts · page 2

kingdoms
commensalism
parasitism
autotroph
heterotroph
herbivore
carnivore
omnivore

Taiga · Backs · page 2

The relation between two different kinds of organisms when one receives benefits from the other
A domain in which something is dominant (plural)
Plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances
The relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other
Any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants
An organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition
A person who eats all kinds of foods
A terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal

Taiga · Fronts · page 3

precipitation
niches
food web

Taiga · Backs · page 3

A position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it (plural)
The quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time
A community of organisms where there are several interrelated ___ chains