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Chains and Webs
Dead or Alive
Niche
Pyramids and Cycles
100
The place where an organism lives.
What is a habitat?
100
A model that shows how food energy passes from organism to organism.
What is a food chain?
100
Refers to non-living things in the environment.
What is abiotic?
100
The role played by an organism in an ecosystem.
What is niche?
100
A model that shows how energy is lost at each link in a food chain.
What is an energy pyramid?
200
A group made up of all the interacting populations that live in an area.
What is a community?
200
An animal that eats only vegetation.
What is a herbivore?
200
Refers to living things in the environment.
What is biotic?
200
An organism that breaks down dead or waste materials such as dead animals.
What is a decomposer?
200
Any living thing such as a plant or animal.
What is an organism?
300
A group of organisms of the same species, living together in one ecosystem.
What is population?
300
A network of interconnected food chains in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
300
A symbiotic relationship between two differnt types of organisms, in which both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
300
An organism that eats other organisms. It can be a herbivore, carnivore or an omnivore.
What is a consumer?
300
The process that moves nutrients back and forth between the biotic and abiotic environment.
What is a nutrient cycle?
400
A region that has very low temperatures and little precipitation, making it a cold desert
What is an arctic ecosystem?
400
An animal that eats other animals.
What is a carnivore?
400
A symbiotic relationship between two differnt types of organisms, in which one benefits and the other is harmed.
What is parasitism?
400
An organism that makes its own food instead of eating other organisms.
What is a producer?
400
These are contained in food and are used to repair cells and tissue.
What are nutrients?
500
All the interacting organisms that live in an environment, as well as the abiotic parts.
What is an ecosystem?
500
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
500
A symbiotic relationship between two differnt types of organisms, in which one benefits and the other is not affected.
What is commensalism?
500
An organism that eats decaying plant or animal matter.
What is a scavenger?
500
On average, only about ten percent of food energy is transferred from the first link to the second link in a food chain.
What is the ten percent rule?
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