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Abiotic factors
What is all the moving aspects of an ecosystem?
100
Competitive exclusive principle
What is a principle of ecology stating that two different species cannot occupy the same niche in the same place for very long?
100
Habitat
What is a physical environment in which a species lives and to which it has become adapted?
100
Photoautroph
What is a producer that uses energy from sunlight to make food by photosynthesis?
100
Runoff
What is precipitation that falls on land and flows over the surface of the ground?
200
Biomass
What is total mass of organisms at a trophic level?
200
Decomposer
What is a organism that breaks down the remains of dead organisms and other organic wastes?
200
Niche
What is a role of a species in its ecosystem that includes all the ways the species interacts with the biotic and abiotic factors of the ecosystem?
200
Scavenger
What is a decomposer that consumers the soft tissues of dead animals?
200
Water Cycle
What is interconnected pathways through which water is recycled through the biotic and abiotic components of the biosphere?
300
Biotic factor
What is living aspects of the environment, including organisms of the same and different species?
300
Detritivore
What is a consumer that consumes detritus?
300
Ecology
What is a branch of biology that is the study of how living things interact with each other and with their environment?
300
Omnivore
What is a consumer that eats both plants and animals?
300
Condensation
What is process in which water vapor changes to tiny droplets of liquid water?
400
Carnivore
What is a consumer that eats animals?
400
Detritus
What is a substance composed of dead leaves, other plant remains, and animal feces that collects on the soil or at the bottom of a body of water?
400
Food Chain
What is a diagram that represents a single pathway through which energy and matter flow through an ecosystem?
400
Saprotroph
What is a decomposer such as a fungus or protozoan that feeds on any remaining organic matter that is left after other decomposers do their work?
400
Aquifer
What is underground layer of rock that stores water?
500
Chemoautotroph
What is a consumer that uses energy from chemical compounds to make food by chemosynthesis?
500
Food Web
What is a diagram that represents multiple intersecting pathways through which energy and matter flow through an ecosystem?
500
Herbivore
What is a consumer that eats producers such as plants or algae?
500
Trophic Level
What is feeding position in a food chain or food web, such as producer, primary consumer, or secondary consumer?
500
Groundwater
What is water that exists in the ground either in the soil or in rock layers below the surface?