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

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

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The biome that contains mostly evergreen and conifer trees

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The biome in which we llive
temperate forest
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The biome that has more plants and animals than any other biome
tropical forest
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Trees that change color in the fall and then lose their leaves for winter
tropical rainforest
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The biome that is characterized by tall grasses and herds of herbivores like the cattle who graze
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.
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?
If mice die from disease then the owl population would decrease because the mice are the main thing for the owl to eat.