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Abiotic factors
What is the nonliving aspects of the environment?
100
Competitive exclusion principle
What is the principle of ecology stating that two different species cannot occupy the same niche in the same place for very long?
100
Food Chain
What is the diagram that represents a single pathway through which energy and matter flow through an ecosystem?
100
Omnivore
What is the consumer that eats both plants and animals?
200
Biomass
What is the total mass of organisms at a trophic level?
200
Decomposer
What is the organism that breaks down the remains of dead organisms and other organic wastes?
200
Food web
What is the diagram that represents multiple intersecting pathways through which energy and matter flow through an ecosystem?
200
Photoautotroph
What is producer that uses energy from sunlight to make food by photosynthesis?
200
Carbon Cycle
What is the interconnected pathways through which carbon is recycled through the biotic and abiotic components of the biosphere?
300
Biotic factors
What is the living aspects of the environment?
300
Detritivore
What is the decomposer that consumes detritus?
300
Habitat
What is the physical environment in which a species lives and to which it has become adapted?
300
Saprotroph
What is the decomposer such as a fungus or protozoan that feeds on any remaining organic matter that is left after other decomposers do their work?
300
Exchange Pool
What is the part of a biogeochemical cycle that holds an element or water for a short period of time?
400
Carnivore
What is the consumer that eats animals?
400
Detritus
What is the substance composed of dead leaves, other plant remains, and animal feces that collects on the soil or at the bottom of a body of water?
400
Herbivore
What is the consumer that eats producers such as plants or algae?
400
Scavenger
What is the decomposer that consumers the soft tissues of dead animals?
400
Runoff
What is the precipitation that falls on land and flows over the surface of the ground?
500
Chemoautotrpoh
What is the producer that uses energy from chemical compounds to make food by chemosynthesis?
500
Ecology
What is the branch of biology that is the study of how living things interact with each other and with their environment?
500
Niche
What is the role of a species in its ecosystem that includes all the ways the species interacts with the biotic and abiotic factors of the ecosystem?
500
Trophic level
What is the feeding position in a food chain or food web, such as producer, primary consumer, or secondary consumer?
500
Ground Water
What is water that exists in the ground either in the soil or in rock layers below the surface?
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