Ecosystems
Food Chains and Webs
Levels of organization
Characteristics of Life
100
These factors in the environment include all the living things and things recently deceased
What are biotic factors
100
These organisms eat only plants
What are herbivores?
100
A single organism is called this
What is individual?
100

All livings things are made up of...

Cells

200
These parts of the environment are non-living and include air, water, and sunlight
What are abiotic factors?
200
These organisms always start food chains
What are producers?
200
This is the name for a single type of organism.
What is a species?
200

When you get hot you sweat, when you get cold you shiver, this is an example of...

Homeostasis/ mantaining in internal stable environment 

300
A place where an organism lives is called this
What is habitat?
300
These organisms that breakdown dead or waste materials
What are decomposers?
300
This is a group of organisms of the same species, living together in one ecosystem
What is a population?
300

What is the word we used instead of food in this class when we are talking about what a living thing needs to survive?

Energy
400
This is a characteristic that is inherited and that helps an organism survive in its environment
What is an adaptation?
400
This is a diagram showing a lot of interconnected food chains
What is a food web?
400
This is a group made up of all the interacting populations that live in an area
What is a community?
400

List three reasons why a rock is abiotic

It is not made up of cells, can not reproduce, no genetic material (DNA), can not grow and develop, does not use materials or energy, no stable internal environment, does not evolve, does not react to stimulus

500
This is the role that is undertaken by an organism in an ecosystem
What is niche?
500
On average, this is the percentage of energy that is passed between levels in a food chain
What is 10%?
500
The biotic parts of a community, together with the abiotic parts of the environment that affect the community, form this
What is an ecosystem?
500

List 3 reasons why Mr. Chadha is living

He is made up of cells, can reproduce but won't till he's much older and bored with life, he has DNA, he grows (even though he wishes he was taller) and develops, he needs energy, he responds to stimulus, he maintains an internal environment 

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