Ecosystem Flashcards

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Producer

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An organism that uses sunlight to make its own food.

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Consumer

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An organism that eats a producer or another consumer.

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Decomposer

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An organism that eats dead organism

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Herbivore

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An organism that eats only plants

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Carnivore

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An organism that eats only meat.

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Omnivore

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An organism that eats both plants and animals

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Food chain

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A diagram that shows how organisms get their food

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Food web

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Many food chains that are combined together

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10% rule

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The amount of energy passed on to the next level on the energy pyramid. The other energy is used for life process .

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Symbiosis

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A relation in which to different organisms live in close association with each other

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Parasitism

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One species benefits while the other is harmed

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Commensalism

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One organism benefits and one is unaffected

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Mutualism

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Both species benefit, sometimes depend on each other to survive

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Energy pyramid

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A diagram that shows how energy flows in a food chain

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Predator

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An animal that naturally hunts prey.

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Prey:

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An animal that is hunted by other animals as food.