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The number of new individuals born into a population during a given period of time.
What is BIRTH RATE?
Consumer in a food chain who eats plants.
What is a PRIMARY CONSUMER?
An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms, like plants and animals.
What is a CONSUMER?
A rebuilding process in an ecosystem that takes place in an area where there is neither soil nor living organisms.
What is PRIMARY SUCCESSION?
The study of water.
What is HYDROLOGY?
An organelle that converts the energy in food into a form of energy that the body can use.
What is the MITOCHONDRION?
A protein produced by a living organism that speeds up a chemical reaction within its body.
What is an ENZYME?
A process through which plants take in water from the soil through their roots and release water vapor into the atmosphere through their leaves.
What is TRANSPIRATION?
A type of energy storage molecule made up of many glucose molecules (sugar) connected together.
What is a STARCH?
An environmental factor that regulates the size of a population in a certain environment.
What are LIMITING FACTORS?
Rounded structures on the roots of some kinds of plants where nitrogen-fixing bacteria live.
What are NODULES?
Ecosystems on land.
What is TERRESTRIAL ecosystems?
The ability to make things move or change.
What is ENERGY?
An organism that traps energy from sunlight and uses it to make food.
What is a PRODUCER?
The role of or function of an organism or species in an ecosystem.
What is a NICHE?
The process by transforming free nitrogen into usable nitrogen compounds.
What is NITROGEN FIXATION?
An environment that includes all the living and nonliving organisms, as well as the nonliving parts such as sun, water, air, and rocks.
What is an ECOSYSTEM?
An animal that captures and eats other animals.
What is a PREDATOR?
An organism that gets its energy by breaking down dead material and waste.
What is a DECOMPOSER?
Consumers that feed on secondary consumers.
What are TERTIARY CONSUMER?
A model that shows all the possible feeding relationships among the organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a FOOD WEB?
A position of an organism in a food chain.
What is a TROPHIC LEVEL?
Species that first populate a previously damaged or disrupted ecosystem.
What is a PIONEER SPECIES?
Consumer that eats dead organisms for food.
What is a SCAVENGER?
Symbiotic relationship in which one species, the parasite, benefits and the other, called the host , is harmed.
What is PARASITISM?