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Vocabulary
Food Webs
Ecology
Consumers
Misc.
100
An environment that provides the things an organism neds to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
100
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthese.
What are Plants?
100
A group of land ecosysems with similiar climates and orgaisms.
What is a biome?
100

An organism that its only plants?

What is a herbivore.

100

The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.

What is a host?

200
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
200

These organisms are found deep in the ocean and produce their own food.  They use this process to make food

What are chemosynthesis?

200

A group of similar organisms that live in same are at the same time.

What is a population?

200

The term given to an organism that eats dead and decaying organisms.

What is a decomposer?

200
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
300
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
300

These organisms typically only eat other organism.

What is heterotrophs?

300

A group of different types of organisms that live in the same area at the same time is called>

What is a community?

300

Worms are considered to be what kind of consumer.

What are detrivores?

300
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
400

An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.

What is a decomposer?

400
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
What is an energy pyramid?
400

The name given to organism that appear first after succession takes place.

What is a pioneer species?

400

Bears, pigs, and humans are considered what type of consumer.

What are omnivores?

400

An interaction in which one organism hunts and kills another organism for food.

What is predation?

500
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
500

What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?

What is 90%?

500

What do you call the organisms that an ecosystem reaches at the end of succession.

What is a climax community?

500

A bird stalks, kills, and eats another animal.  What 2 ecological terms would describe this consumer.

What is a heterotroph and carnivore?

500

A group of organism that are physically similar and can mate wit each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.

What is a species?