Ecosystem Vocab

Question 1

Ecology

Answer 1

Study of the interactions that take place among organisms and their environment

Question 2

Biotic factors

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Living organisms

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Species

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A group of animals that reproduce and create offspring

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Habitat

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The place an organism makes its home

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Food chain

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Feeding sequence of organisms indicating flow of energy as one species is consumed by the next

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Herbivore

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Animal that consumes plant matter

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Symbiosis

Answer 7

Commensalism, mutualism, parasitism

Question 8

Predator

Answer 8

Animal that hunts and kills other animals

Question 9

Carrying capacity

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Largest number of individuals of a species that ecosystem can support

Question 10

Abiotic factors

Answer 10

Non-living parts of an ecosystem

Question 11

Ecosystem

Answer 11

All the living organisms that live in an area + abiotic factors

Question 12

Biome

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Tundra, desert, temperate

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Niche

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Organisms role in the ecosystem

Question 14

Limiting factors

Answer 14

Anything that can limit the size of a population

Question 15

Energy Pyramid

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Energy flow through trophic levels

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Energy flow

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Transfer of energy from one organism to another

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Producers

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Autotroph

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Consumers

Answer 18

Heterotroph

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Decomposers

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Organism that consumes dead organisms

Question 20

Food web

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Complex relationships of many food chains

Question 21

Prey

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Hunted

Question 22

Carnivores

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Meat lovers

Question 23

Omnivores

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Eats the producers and consumers