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Members of an Ecosystem
Relationships
Nutrition
Changes in an Ecosystem
Energy
100
An organism that performs photosynthesis
What is an autotroph or a producer?
100
An animal that hunts for food
What is a predator?
100
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What do “Producers” produce?
100
An organism’s role in the ecosystem
What is a niche?
100
All of the energy that is present in an ecosystem comes from this source
What is the sun?
200
An organism that must eat food to obtain energy
What is a consumer?
200
An animal that is hunted by other animals
What is prey?
200
Green plants
Primary consumers in a food chain must always eat what kind of food?
200
Process of change that occurs in an ecosystem as new plant and animal life enter
What is succesion?
200
Type of organism that can transform light energy into chemical energy
What are green plants?
300
An organism that causes other organisms to decay, recycling nutrients
What is a decomposer or saprophyte?
300
A type of symbiosis where one organism benefits by harming another organism
What is parasitism?
300
Term used to describe animals that eat both plants and other animals
What is an omnivore?
300
Term used to describe a stable ecosystem that has completed succession
What is a climax community?
300
Percentage of calories lost at each step up on the food chain.
What is 90% (10% is passed on)?
400
A term that means "organic material present in an ecosystem". It is either an organism or a product of one.
What is a biotic factor?
400
A type of symbiosis where both organisms benefit from their close interaction.
What is mutualism?
400
The term used to describe animals that eat producers
What is an herbivore?
400
Term used to describe a foreign species that enters a new ecosystem and has little competition
What is an alien or exotic species?
400
How energy is lost as it is transferred to the next level of the food chain.
What is the metabolism of the organism that is eaten?
500
Water, Carbon Dioxide, Oxygen, Temperature, Terrain, etc.
What are 3 abiotic factors?
500
A type of symbiosis where one organism benefits from a close interaction and the other organism is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
500
Term used to describe a complicated pattern of overlapping food chains
What is a food web?
500
Failure of a species to adapt to a changing ecosystem will result in the ___________ of that species
What is extinction?
500
Dr. Duggan's favorite biology class
What is AP Biology (period 6)?