Ecosystem Vocabulary Flashcards

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An organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants and animals

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Producer

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An organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that does not produce its own food.

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Consumer

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An animal that hunts and eats another animal.

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Predator

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An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.

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Prey

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A group of organisms that share similar characteristics and can mate with each other to produce offspring.

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Species

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The group of organisms of the same species living in the same area.

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Population

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A group of different populations that live together and interact in an environment.

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Community

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The variety of species that exist in an environment.

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Biodiversity

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The part of Earth which life can exist.

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Biosphere

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A model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things.

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Food Chain

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A model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things.

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Food web

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The location in which an organism lives.

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Habitat

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A major ecological community such as grasslands, tropical rain forest, or desert.

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Biome

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All the living an non-living things in an area that interact with each other.

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Ecosystem

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The place or role that an organism has in its habitat.

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Niche

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A relationship between two species of a plant, animal, or fungus in which one lives off the other and both organisms benefit.

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Mutualism

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A relationship between two species of a plant, animal, or fungus in which one lives with, on, or in the other without damage to either.

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Commonsalism

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A certain type of non mutual relationship found between two different species in which one organism known as the parasite benefits as the expense of the other organism.

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Parasitism

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The process in which gaseous nitrogen is changed to ammonia.

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Bacteria fixing

20
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The process by which nitrogen is fixed to water molecules.

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Lightning fixing

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An interaction between two different organisms living in close, physical association, typically to the advantage of both.

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Symbiosis