Life Science 7A Voc 12 Flashcards
Trait that helps an organism survive
Adaptation
Repeated movement of carbon between Earth’s atmosphere and organisms
Carbon Cycle
Consumer that eats only animals
Carnivore
Relationship between two different species in which one is benefitted and the other is unaffected
Comensalism
Struggle for resources in an ecosystem
Competition
Changing of gas into a liquid
Condensation
Organism that obtains food be eating other organisms
Consumer
Organism that breaks down the wastes or remains of other organisms
Decomposer
Excessive cutting of forests
Deforestation
Species of living organisms in danger of becoming extinct
Endangered Species
Way of showing how energy moves through a food chain decreasing at each level
Energy Pyramid
Changing of liquid to a gas
Evaporation
Way of showing how the energy from food moves through populations of organisms in a community
Food Chain
Way of showing how food chains are related
Food Web
Nonrenewable energy source fromed from the remains of plants and animals
Fossil Fuel
Consumer that eats only plants
Herbivore
Organism that makes its own food
Producer
Organism a parasite feeds off or on
Host
Relationship between two species live on, in or near each other and both are benefited
Mutualism
Repeated movement of nitrogen and its compounds between the atmosphere, the soil, and living organisms
Nitrogen Cycle
Consumer that eats both plants and animals
Omnivore
Relationship between two different kinds of organisms in which one lives on, off, or in the other and causes it harm
Parasitism
Water that falls to Earth from the atmosphere
Precipitation
Relationship in which an organism kills and eats another organism
Predation
Organism that kills and eats another organism
Predator
Organism that is killed and eaten by another organism
Prey
Organism that feeds on only dead animals
Scavenger
Relationship between different species living in close relationship with each other in which at least one is benefited
Symbiosis
Process by which plants lose water through the stomata in their leaves
Transpiration
Repeated movement of water between Earth’s surface and the atmosphere
Water Cycle