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Types of Ecosystems
Vocabulary
Interaction in Ecosystems
Energy Sources
Human's Effect on Ecosystems
100
A place that provides all the living things an organism needs to live.
What is a habitat?
100
Different populations in an area.
What is a community?
100
An organism that makes their own food for energy.
What is a producer?
100
A green substance that traps energy from the sun.
What is chlorophyll?
100
Any substance that damages the environment.
What is pollution?
200
An ecosystem with little rain, hot days, and cool nights.
What is a desert?
200
Any animal that is hunted by others for food
What is prey?
200
An organism that eats only plants.
What is a herbivore?
200
A diagram that combines many food chains into one picture.
What is a food web?
200
A plant brought from Europe and parts of Asia for medicine that has taken over space.
What is the garlic-mustard plant?
300
A place with a warm, rainy climate.
What is a tropical rain forest?
300
All the living and nonliving things in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
300
Carnivores that feed on dead animals for energy.
What is a scavenger?
300
The process that plants use to make sugar for food.
What is photosynthesis?
300
An attempt to preserve or protect an environment from harmful changes.
What is conservation?
400
An ecosystem found throughout the Midwest and Great Plains and has nutrient-rich soil.
What is a prairie?
400
A plant that loses all of its leaves for a part of the year.
What is a deciduous plant?
400
A factor that limits the carrying capacity of a habitat such as the amount of food, water, space, and shelter.
What is a limiting factor?
400
The substance that is given off during cellular respiration.
What is oxygen?
400
Limits on how many animals a person can hunt or fish.
What is regulation?
500
An ecosystem with harsh, long, cold winters.
What is a taiga?
500
An organism that lives on or inside another organism.
What is a parasite?
500
The roll that an organism has in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
500
Earth's primary energy source.
What is the sun?
500
Something that people may bring to an environment that may harm that environment.
What is a nonnative species?