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