Ecosystem Test Flashcards
Structure
Function
S-a body part that does a certain “job” for an organism
F- the job a structure does
Organism
A living thing
Adaptations
Structures or behaviors that help organisms survive in their environment.
Photosynthesis
The process of using the suns energy, water, and carbon dioxide to make plants, trees, or bushes food called sugar or glucose. The leaf will then produce oxygen.
Metamorphosis
changing form at each stage in their lifecycle. (Example; butterflies and frogs)
Behavior
Something an organism does. (Examples; hibernation, migration, hunting, protecting young, and using tools.)
Instinctive behavior.
I behavior and animal inherits from their parents. It happens naturally.
Learned behavior
A behavior in animal develops by observing other animals or by being taught
Habitat
Environment that meets and organisms needs.
Species
A group of organisms that can mate and produce offspring like themselves.
Population
A group of organisms of the same kinds living in the same place.
Community
Different populations that live in the same place at the same time
Ecosystems
All the populations and nonliving things (air, water, soil,) sunlight interacting in an environment.
Producers
Organisms that make their own food
They capture the energy in sunlight to make their own food (grass, plants, trees, bushes, pond scum.)
Consumers
Organisms that get energy by eating other organisms
herbivores carnivores and omnivores
Herbivores
Organisms that eat only plants or plant products,; dear,cows, grasshoppers, rabbits, etc.)
Omnivores
Animals that eat both plants and animals
bears, raccoons, call watches, crows.
Carnivores
Animals that eat other animals of the body of other animals
Ladybugs, praying mantis is, sharks, hawks, wolves, etc.
Decomposers
Organisms that break down matter. They get energy by feeding on dead materials and waste.
Food chains
The path of energy from one organism to another organism.
Food web.
Overlapping food chains showing different pathways for the flow of energy.
Vertebrates
Animals that have a backbone-mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.
Invertebrates
Animals with out a backbone-sponges, worms, snails, jellyfish, clams, starfish, crabs, insects, and spiders.
Exoskeleton
A hard covering that protects and animals soft body parts inside-lobsters, crabs, shrimp, crayfish, ticks, insects, spiders, etc.
