Vocabulary
Food Webs
Succession
Biodiversity
Misc.
100
An environment that provides the things an organism neds to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
100
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthese.
What are Plants?
100

The process that occurs when an ecosystem takes over an area of bare rock.

What is primary succession?

100
The definition of biodiversity is _____________________.
What is the variety of different organisms living in a certain area?
100
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.
What is a host?
200
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
200
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
200

The process that occurs when an ecosystem takes over on bare soil after an earlier ecosystem is wiped out.

What is secondary succession?

200

The term given to a species that plays a very important role in an ecosystem. The ecosystem would fall apart quickly if this species disappeared.

What is a keystone species?

200
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
300
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
300
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
300

The first species that occur in any type of succession are all called ______________

What are pioneer species?

300

The two reasons biodiversity is important.

What are for economic reasons, medical reasons, scientific reasons, environmental reasons, stability?

300
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
400

An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms. Vital to recycling nutrients in an ecosystem.

What is a decomposer?

400
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
What is an energy pyramid?
400

These are the last species to appear in ecological successions.

What are deciduous trees?

(Also accept: leafed-trees, hardwoods)

400

Biodiversity is highest in this part of the world.

What is the equator?

400
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
500
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
500
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 90%?
500

The first trees that appear in succession are ___________

What are pine trees?

(Also accept conifers, trees with needles, softwoods)

500

A species that is introduced into an ecosystem. This group of species is likely to cause environmental changes. 

What are invasive species?

500
A group of organiss that are physically similar and can mate wit each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is a species?
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