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Abiotic factor
What is a nonliving aspects of the environment?
100
competitive exclusion principle
What is two different species cannot occupy the same niche in the same pace for very long?
100
food web
What is diagram that represents multiple intersecting pathways through which energy and matter flow through an ecosystem?
100
photographtroph
What is producer that uses energy from sunlight to make food by photosynthesis?
100
sublimation
What is process in which ice and snow change directly to water vapor?
200
Biomass
What is the total mass of organisms at a tropic level?
200
decomposer
What is the break down the remains and other wastes and release simple inorganic molcules back to the enviroment?
200
saprotroph
What is decomposer such as a fungus or protozoan that feeds on any remaining organic matter that is left after other decomposers do their work?
200
runoff
What is precipitation that falls on land and flows over the surface of the ground?
300
Biotic factor
What is the living aspects of the environment?
300
detritivore
What consume detritus?
300
herbivore
What is consumer that eats producers such as plants or algae?
300
scavenger
What is decomposer that consumers the soft tissues of dead animals?
300
water cycle
What is interconnected pathways through which water is recycled through the biotic and abiotic components of the biosphere?
400
carnivore
What is consume animals ?
400
ecology
What is branch of biology that is the study of how living things interact with each other and with their environment?
400
niche
What is role of a species in its ecosystem that includes all the ways the species interacts with the biotic and abiotic factors of the ecosystem?
400
trophic level
What is feeding position in a food chain or food web, such as producer, primary consumer, or secondary consumer?
400
reservior
What is part of a biogeochemical cycle that holds an element or water for a long period of time?
500
chemoatrophs
What is energy from chemical compounds to make food?
500
food chain
What is a diagram that represents feeding relationships?
500
ominivore
What is consumer that eats both plants and animals?
500
transpiration
What is process in which plants give off water vapor from photosynthesis through tiny pores, called stomata, in their leaves?
500
ground water
What is water that exists in the ground either in the soil or in rock layers below the surface?