Vocab 1

Question 1

A biological community of interacting organisms and their environment

Answer 1

Ecosystem

Question 2

Living things

Answer 2

Biotic Factor

Question 3

Nonliving things

Answer 3

Abiotic Factor

Question 4

A living thing

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Organism

Question 5

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

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Species

Question 6

the number of a certain species in an area

Answer 6

Population

Question 7

Groups of animals living in the same place with similar things in common

Answer 7

Communtiy

Question 8

Natural home or environment for an animal plant or other organism

Answer 8

Habitat

Question 9

The process organisms go through to become better adapted to their environment

Answer 9

Natural Selection

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Evolution

Question 11

An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such is carbon dioxide

Answer 11

Producers/Autotrophs

Question 12

An organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances

Answer 12

Consumers/Heterotrophs

Question 13

Animal that eats plants

Answer 13

Primary Consumer

Question 14

Animal that eats the animal that eats the plants

Answer 14

Secondary Consumer

Question 15

Animal on the top of the food chain

Answer 15

Tertiary Consumer

Question 16

Animal that eats plants

Answer 16

Herbivores

Question 17

Animal that eats other animals

Answer 17

Carnivores

Question 18

Animals that eat both plants and other animals

Answer 18

Omnivores

Question 19

Break down dead oragaisms

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Decomposers

Question 20

A hierarchical series of organisms each depend on the next source of food

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Food Chain

Question 21

A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains

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Food Web

Question 22

The energy flow through a food chain or food web

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Energy Pyramid

Question 23

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

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Carbon Cycle

Question 24

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

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Nitrogen Cycle

Question 25

Describes the movement of phosphorus through the lithosphere hydrosphere and biosphere

Answer 25

Phosphorus Cycle

Question 26

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

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Ecological Succession

Question 27

One of the two types of biological and ecological succession of plant life occurring in an environment in which new substrate devoid of vegetation and other organisms usually lacking soil

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Primary Succession

Question 28

The series of community changes which take place on a previously colonized but disturbed or damaged habitat

Answer 28

Secondary Succession

Question 29

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

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Pioneer Species

Question 30

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

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Climax Community