Food Chains/Web
What is a producer?
An organism that makes its own food.
symbiosis
what are abiotic factors?
The non-living things in an environment
The process of maintaining a stable internal environment
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You read medical terms in this order
Encephalitis
En/Cephal/itis
1/2/3
1 (prefix)/2 (root)/ 3 (suffix)
We read them 3/1/2
En- in or around
Cephal- Head/brain
Itis- Inflammation
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Inflammation of the brain or head
What is a tertiary consumer?
A consumer at the top of a food chain/energy pyramid
When both species benefit.
Mutualism
What are biotic factors?
The living things in an environment
Anything that elicits a reaction.
Stimulus
Cardio/megaly
Cardio- Heart
Megaly- Enlarged
Enlarged heart
Decomposer
When one benefits and the other is harmed
Parasitism
The study of the interactions of living organisms with one another and their environment
Ecology
A molecule that is made up of amino acids and is needed to build and repair the body and carry out bodily processes
Proteins
Hematopoeisis
Hemat/o/- Blood, blood cells
Poe- formation of
isis-process or condition of
Process of forming blood cells.
An organism that consumes both meat and plants.
Omnivore
When one benefits and the other is neutral
a group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific geographical area.
Population
Carbohydrates
Teratoma
tera/terato- monster
oma-tumor
Monster tumor
Teratomas are a medical anomaly when it comes to formation. Some of these tumors are composed with different kinds of tissue. Some have even grown teeth.
A hierarchal diagram that is used to organize how energy moves through a system
Coevolution and Mutualism
All of the populations of species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other.
Community
Another term for fats
Lipids
Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis
Leuko- White
Cyto- cells
Clas-breaking
ic- pertaining to
Vasc/vascu- vessels
itis- inflammation
Inflammation of the vessels due to breaking of white blood cells.