vocab #1

Question 1

Community of interacting organisms

Answer 1

Ecosystem

Question 2

All living organisms in am ecosystem

Answer 2

Biotic Factor

Question 3

Non-living physical and chemical parts in an environment

Answer 3

Abiotic Factors

Question 4

Anything living

Answer 4

Organism

Question 5

A group of living organisms with similar individuals or able to interbreed .

Answer 5

Species

Question 6

Inhabitants of a town or area or country

Answer 6

Population

Question 7

A group of people living in the same place possibly with similar characteristics.

Answer 7

Community

Question 8

Natural home or environment of a living organism

Answer 8

Habitat

Question 9

Organisms who are better adapted tend to survive and breed

Answer 9

Natural selection

Question 10

Organisms have been thought to have diversified for earlier forms on earth

Answer 10

Evolution

Question 11

An organism that is able to make its own food from organic substances using light or chemical energy.

Answer 11

Producers or Autotroph

Question 12

An organism that can not make it own food. instead consuming other living organisms

Answer 12

Consumers or heterotrophs

Question 13

Organisms that eat autotrophs also called herbivores

Answer 13

Primary Consumers

Question 14

Organisms that primarily eat consumers also known as carnivores

Answer 14

Secondary Consumers

Question 15

Organisms at the tip top of the food chain who eat secondary consumers (carnivores)

Answer 15

Tertiary Consumers

Question 16

eat only plants (primary consumers)

Answer 16

Herbivores

Question 17

strictly eat meat (secondary consumers)

Answer 17

Carnivores

Question 18

eat both plants and meat

Answer 18

Omnivores

Question 19

Decompose organic material

Answer 19

Decomposers

Question 20

link of organisms where each depend on the other for a food source.

Answer 20

Food chain

Question 21

System if interlocking food chains

Answer 21

Food Web

Question 22

diagram of predatory relationships

Answer 22

Energy Pyramind

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Carbon Cycle

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Nitrogen Cycle

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Phosphorous Cycle

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Ecological succession

Question 27

succession of plant life,occurring in an environment in which new substrate devoid of vegetation and other organisms usually lacking soil, such as a lava flow or area from retreated glacier

Answer 27

Primary Succession

Question 28

changes which take place on a previously colonized, but disturbed or damaged habitat

Answer 28

Secondary succession

Question 29

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

Answer 29

pioneer Species

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Climax Community