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Section 5.1
Food Chain/Web
Section 5.3
Potpourri
Old Stuff
100
Organism that makes its own food
autotroph
100
Lowest level of the food chain (get energy from the sun)
producer
100
Gradual process of change and replacement of organisms in a community
Ecological succession
100
This process is when the "fittest" survive in that particular environment
Natural Selection
100
Living component of an ecosystem
biotic factor
200
Process in which plants use the sun's energy to make their own food.
Photosynthesis
200
Eats the producer
primary consumer
200
Type of succession that occurs where nothing existed before
primary
200
These "trees" show evolution over time of an organism or species
Phylogenetic trees
200
Change over time
evolution
300
What is the equation for photosynthesis?
6CO2 + 6H2O + energy > C6H12O6 + 6O2
300
Many food chains interconnected
food web
300
Occurs on a surface where something previously existed
Secondary
300
These organisms have prokaryotic cells
bacteria
300
The number and variety of species in an area
biodiversity
400
Every step of the food chain or food web is called a(n)
trophic level
400
Top Consumer in the food chain
Quaternary
400
First organism(s) to colonize an area are called
pioneer species
400
These cells have a nucleus
eukarote or eukaryotic
400
This is observed and/or measured in an experiment
Dependent variable
500
Process of breaking down food to yield energy
cell respiration
500
A secondary consumer that eats a primary consumer and a producer is said to be a(n)
omnivore
500
A final and stable community
Climax Community
500
Site of photosynthesis
Cholorplast
500
The ability of one or more organisms to tolerate a particular chemical designed to kill it
Resistance