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Vocabulary
Food Webs
Biomes
Ecology
Misc.
100

living or once living components of a community

What is a Biotic?

100

These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.

What are Plants?

100

A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms.

What is a biome?

100
The definition of biodiversity is _____________________.
What is the variety of different organisms living in a certain area?
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 herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.

What is primary or secondary?

200
The biome you would be in if you were standing on a bitterly cold, dry plain with only a few, short plants scattered aournd.
What is the tundra?
200

all of the different species that interact in an ecosystem

What is a Community?

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 are typically at the top of the food chain.

What is apex predators?

300
The two major types of water ecosystems.
What are freshwater and marine.
300

the abiotic conditions within which a species can survive

What are Tolerance Range?

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

a change or the process of change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment

What is adaptations?

400

the ability to maintain natural ecological conditions without interruption or weakening

What is Sustainability?

400
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
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A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
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What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?

What is 90%?

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List 3 of the major biomes

What are the aquatic, desert, grassland, forest, or tundra?

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the maximum population size of a particular species that a given ecosystem can sustain

What is Carrying Capacity?

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

What is a species?