B12 Flashcards

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Sun is the?

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principal source of energy input to biological systems

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Population

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All the members of the same species in a given area

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Community

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All the living organisms in a given are

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Ecosystem

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A unit containing all of the organisms and their environment interacting together in a given area

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Biotic Factors

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A living organism that effects it’s environment

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Abiotic Factors

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Non-living factors that shape it’s environment

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Food chains

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diagram showing the transfer of energy from one organism to the next, beginning with the producer

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Food Web

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Combination of interconnected food chains

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Producers

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Organism that makes it’s own organic nutrients, through photosynthesis.

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Consumers

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Organism that gets its energy by feeding on other organisms

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Decomposers

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Organism that gets its energy from dead or waste organic matter

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Tropic Level

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position of an organism in a food chain or food web

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Grazers food chain

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principal energy input is green plants

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Detritus food chain

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principal energy input is dead organic matter

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Carnivore

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An animal that gets its energy by eating other animals

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Herbivore

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An animal that gets its energy by eating plants

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Omnivore

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An animal that gets its energy by eating both plants and animals