Ecosystem Test Flashcards

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Structure

Function

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S-a body part that does a certain “job” for an organism

F- the job a structure does

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Organism

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A living thing

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Adaptations

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Structures or behaviors that help organisms survive in their environment.

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Photosynthesis

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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.

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Metamorphosis

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changing form at each stage in their lifecycle. (Example; butterflies and frogs)

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Behavior

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Something an organism does. (Examples; hibernation, migration, hunting, protecting young, and using tools.)

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Instinctive behavior.

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I behavior and animal inherits from their parents. It happens naturally.

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Learned behavior

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A behavior in animal develops by observing other animals or by being taught

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Habitat

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Environment that meets and organisms needs.

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Species

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A group of organisms that can mate and produce offspring like themselves.

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Population

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A group of organisms of the same kinds living in the same place.

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Community

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Different populations that live in the same place at the same time

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Ecosystems

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All the populations and nonliving things (air, water, soil,) sunlight interacting in an environment.

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Producers

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Organisms that make their own food

They capture the energy in sunlight to make their own food (grass, plants, trees, bushes, pond scum.)

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Consumers

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Organisms that get energy by eating other organisms

herbivores carnivores and omnivores

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Herbivores

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Organisms that eat only plants or plant products,; dear,cows, grasshoppers, rabbits, etc.)

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Omnivores

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Animals that eat both plants and animals

bears, raccoons, call watches, crows.

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Carnivores

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Animals that eat other animals of the body of other animals

Ladybugs, praying mantis is, sharks, hawks, wolves, etc.

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Decomposers

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Organisms that break down matter. They get energy by feeding on dead materials and waste.

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Food chains

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The path of energy from one organism to another organism.

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Food web.

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Overlapping food chains showing different pathways for the flow of energy.

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Vertebrates

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Animals that have a backbone-mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.

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Invertebrates

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Animals with out a backbone-sponges, worms, snails, jellyfish, clams, starfish, crabs, insects, and spiders.

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Exoskeleton

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A hard covering that protects and animals soft body parts inside-lobsters, crabs, shrimp, crayfish, ticks, insects, spiders, etc.

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Endoskeleton

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Internal skeleton.

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Groups of vertebrates

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Mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.