Ecosystems
Classification
Vocabulary Terms
Structure of an Ecosystem
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How animals and other organisms get their energy.
What is eating other organisms?
100
Have the ability to create their own food.
What are producers?
100
All the substances that an organism requires from food.
What are nutrients?
100
A series of different organisms that transfer food between the trophic levels of an ecosystem
What is food chain?
100
The trapping of radiated heat by gases in the atmosphere.
What is the greenhouse effect?
200
Where almost all the energy used by living things comes from.
What is the sun?
200
These capture and eat their food.
What is Carnivores?
200
Enables organisms to obtain the materials they need from the environment.
What is a living space?
200
A network of food chains representing the feeding relationships among the organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
200
A racoon is classified as being this.
What is an omnivore?
300
Organisms evolved and were able to combine water, carbon dioxide, and energy from the sun to produce food through this process.
What is photosynthesis?
300
Usually do not hunt living prey, but instead feed on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
300
An area that is claimed as a living space by an individual animal or group of animals.
What is a territory?
300
A condition of an organism when the life processes within the body slow down.
What is hibernation?
300
An elephant is considered to be in this classifying group.
What is a herbivore?
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The layers in the structure of feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What are Trophic Levels?
400
Some consumers, including human beings, eat both producers and consumers.
What is a omnivore?
400
Bacteria and fungi that consume the bodies of dead organisms and other organic wastes.
What are decomposers?
400
Dominant animals within a specific area.
What are territorial animals?
400
The breaking down of rocks by weather and water.
What is weathering?
500
The sole points of entry for new energy into the ecosystem.
What are Autotrophs?
500
Organisms that eat ONLY plants.
What is an herbivore?
500
Because they cannot make their own food, they must obtain nourishment by eating other organisms.
What is a heterotroph?
500
The increasing concentration of a pollutant in organisms at higher trophic levels in the food web
What is biological magnification?
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The study of Earth, the home of living organisms.
What is ecology?
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