ch 5 ecosystems Flashcards

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The process by which plants use water, carbon dioxide, sunlight to make its own food is

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photosynthesis

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Any plant that does photosynthesis to make its own food

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producer

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Any animal that must eat some kind of food to get energy

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consumer

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An organism that consumer wastes or dead organisms to get energy

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decomposer

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an animal that eats only plants

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herbivore

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An animal that eats only meat

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carnivore

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An animal that eats both meat and plants

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omnivore

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A group of organisms of ONE SPECIES that live in an area at one time

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population

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All the populations in an area make up a

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community

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All the living and nonliving things in an area

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ecosystem

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The place in an ecosystem in which an organism ives and has all of its needs met is a

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habitat

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The place or job that an organism has in an ecosystem

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niche

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An animal that is eaten by another animal is a

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prey

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A carnivore that hunts, captures and kills his prey is a

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predator

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A relationship between living organisms

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symbiosis

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The passing of ENERGY throught the environment. It starts with the sun and goes to the producers first nd then to the consumers

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food chain

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A group of many food chains joined together

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food web

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The amount of food, water, space, or shelter available in an ecosystem

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limiting factors

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The number of organisms that can live in one place

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carrying capacity

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A diagram that shows the amounts of energy that flows through eMac level of a food chain

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energy pyramid

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A VERY LARGE ECOSYSTEM that has its own climate and its own plants and animals

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biome

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The biome that has hot daytime temperatures and cold nighttime and very little rain

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desert

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The coldest biome. It has no trees and the ground is frozen

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tundra

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The biome that contains mostly evergreen and conifer trees

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taiga

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The biome in which we llive

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temperate forest

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The biome that has more plants and animals than any other biome

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tropical forest

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Trees that change color in the fall and then lose their leaves for winter

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tropical rainforest

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The biome that is characterized by tall grasses and herds of herbivores like the cattle who graze

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grassland

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Draw and label a food chain using the following: owl, plant, snake, mouse, mushrooms. Draw using arrows and label each one as producer, consumer, and decomposer.

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mouse eats plant, snake eats mouse, owl eats snake, mushroom
consumer producer con con con con decomposer

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If an owl eats mice, what would happen to the population if the mice would die out from disease?

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If mice die from disease then the owl population would decrease because the mice are the main thing for the owl to eat.