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Question 1

An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form

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Organism

Question 2

A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.

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Species

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Organisms that live in the same area from the same species that can breed with one another

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Population

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Organisms that have similar characteristics in common and live in the same area

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Community

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A biological community that interacts with organisms and their environment

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Ecosystem

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Non - Living Organisms

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Abiotic

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Living Organisms

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Biotic

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An organism that can produce its own food by using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals

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Producer (Autotroph)

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An organism that is not able to produce their own food, either prey on other organisms or feed on producers produce

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Consumer (Heterotroph)

Question 10

An organism that eats plants

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Herbivore

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An organism that feeds on other organisms

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Carnivore

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An organism that feeds on both plants and other animals

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Omnivore

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An organism that breaks down organic waste and the remains of dead organisms, and also breaks down DETRITUS

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Decomposer

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A consumer that relies directly on autotrophs/producers for its source of energy

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Primary Consumer

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A consumer that relies primarily on primary consumers for its source of energy

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Secondary Consumer

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A consumer that gains energy from feeding on both primary and secondary consumers

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Tertiary Consumer

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An apex predator that feeds on other preys, usually at the top of the food chain

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Quaternary Consumer

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A linear illustration that represents the step sequence of who eats whom in the biosphere

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Food Chain

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An interlocking series of food chains

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Food Web

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The movement of water through the biosphere

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Hydrological Cycle

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A cycle of matter in which nitrogen atoms move from nitrogen gas in the atmosphere, to inorganic forms in the soil to organic forms in living things, and then back to inorganic forms in the soil and nitrogen gas in the atmosphere

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Nitrogen Cycle

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The cycle of photosynthesis and cellular respiration

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Carbon Cycle

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A category of living things defined by how it gains its energy, the first trophic level is autotrophs, and each higher level contains heterotrophs

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Trophic Levels

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The envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet

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Atmosphere

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The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle

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Lithosphere

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All the water on the earth’s surface, such as lakes and seas, and sometimes including water over the Earth’s surface, such as clouds

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Hydrosphere

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Taxonomy Order

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Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

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The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring

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Natural Selection

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The concentration of toxins in an organism as a result of its ingesting other plants or animals in which the toxins are more widely disbursed

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Biomagnification

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A change or the process of change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment.

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Adaptation

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Traits or characteristics that are more likely to be beneficial than another

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Favorable Traits

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Traits or characteristics that offsprings can receive from parents

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Heritable Characteristics

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The man from England who did the Moth observation

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Charles Darwin

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Binomial Naming System

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• Must be underlined or italicized
• Genus comes first and is capital
• Species comes after but in lowercase

Question 35

Graphs that are used to represent energy flow in food chains and food webs or the population of organisms in a food chain?

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Ecological Pyramids