First deck

Question 1

Ecosystem

Answer 1

Biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment

Question 2

Biotic Factor

Answer 2

Are of all living organisms within an ecosystem

Question 3

Abiotic Factor

Answer 3

All non living things in an ecosystem

Question 4

Organism

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Species

Answer 5

Group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding

Question 6

Population

Answer 6

All inhabitants of an area

Question 7

Community

Answer 7

Group of interdependent organisms of different species growing or living together in specified place

Question 8

Habitat

Answer 8

A natural home for a animal, plant, or organism

Question 9

Natural Selection

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Organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring

Question 10

Evolution

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process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of earth

Question 11

Producers/Autotrophs

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organism capable of synthesizing its own food from inorganic substances using light or chemical energy

Question 12

Consumers/Heterotrophs

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Organism that cannot manufacture its own food and instead obtains its food and energy by taking in organic substances usually plant or animal matter

Question 13

Primary Consumer

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Living organism that eats the producers. Plant eaters.

Question 14

Secondary Consumer

Answer 14

Eat primary consumers. They are carnivores, and omnivores, Eats plants and animals

Question 15

Tertiary Consumer

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At the top of the food chain carnivore that eats other carnivores

Question 16

Herbivores

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Animal that eats plants

Question 17

Carnivores

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Animal that feeds on flesh

Question 18

Omnivores

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Eats food of both plant and animal origin

Question 19

Decomposers

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an organism especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate that decomposes organic material

Question 20

Food Chain

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a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food

Question 21

Food Web

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a series of interlocking and interdependent food chains

Question 22

Energy Pyramid

Answer 22

graphical model of energy flow in a community

Question 23

Carbon Cycle

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the series of processes by which carbon compounds are interconverted in the environment, chiefly involving the incorporation of carbon dioxide into living tissue by photosynthesis and its return to the atmosphere through respiration, the decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels.

Question 24

Nitrogen Cycle

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the series of processes by which nitrogen and its compounds are interconverted in the environment and in living organisms, including nitrogen fixation and decomposition.

Question 25

Phosphorus Cycle

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the phosphorus cycle is the biogeochemical cycle that describes the movement of phosphorus through the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere.

Question 26

Ecological Succession

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is the observed process of change in the species structure of an ecological community over time.

Question 27

Pioneer Species

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which are the first to colonize previously disrupted or damaged ecosystems, beginning a chain of ecological succession that ultimately leads to a more biodiverse steady-state ecosystem.

Question 28

Climax Community

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a stable mature community in a successive series which has reached equilibrium after having evolved through stages and adapted to its environment

Question 29

Ecosystem

Answer 29

a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environmen