Parts of an Ecosystem
Environmental Limits of Population Size
Population Interactions
Food Chains
Food Chains Continued
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What is biotic and abiotic factors
These are living or non-living factors in an ecosystem
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What is Competition
The struggle for resources among organisms
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What is food chains
Illustrates the relationship between predator and prey or simply shows what eats what
100
What is Carnivores
Heterotrophs that eat other animals
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What are Consumers
An organism that must acquire food by consuming other organisms (another word for heterotroph)
200
What are three synonyms for the word transport?
The three synonyms for the word (transport) is lift, movement, and shipping.
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What is predators and Prey
Organisms which kill and eat other organisms and organisms which are killed for food
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What is Biodiversity
A measurement of the degree to which species vary within an ecosystem
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What is Herbivores
Heterotrophs that survive on plant tissue
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What are Producers
Organisms that are self feeders (also known as autotrophs)
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What are three synonyms for the word incorporate?
The three synonymsfor the word (incorporate) are add, unite, and form.
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What are limiting factors
Factors in the environment that limit the size of populations. For example: sunlight, oxygen, temperature, water, soil
300
What is Food webs
Diagrams that show the more complex feeding relationship among producers, consumers, and decomposers
300
What are Heterotrophs
An organism that must acquire food by consuming other organisms (another word for consumer)
300
What are Decomposers
These organisms consume the wastes and dead bodies of all other organisms. They recycle materials that can be reused
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What are three synonyms for the word incidence?
The three synonyms for the word (incidence) are frequency, number, measure.
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What is Ecological Succession
The series of changes by which one habitat changes into another
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What is Energy Pyramid
A diagram that illustrates the transfer of energy through a food chain or web
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What are Autotrophs
Organisms that are self feeders (also known as producers)
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What are Scavengers
Consumers that eat dead organisms
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What are three synonyms for the word initiatives?
The three synonyms for the word (initiatives) are action, ambition, drive.
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What is Carrying Capacity
The number of organisms of any single species that an ecosystem can support
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What is an Ecological Niche
The role that each species plays in an ecosystem
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What is Host Organism
an organism that harbors another organism inside or near their body in a symbiotic relationship
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What are Parasites
Organisms that attack other live organisms but rarely kill them, usually living on their body
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