Vocab 1

Question 1

a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment

Answer 1

Ecosystem

Question 2

all the living organism in the ecosystem

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Biotic factor

Question 3

all non-living chemical and physical parts in the environment

Answer 3

Abiotic factor

Question 4

a individual animal, plant, or single celled life forms

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Organism

Question 5

a group of living organism having similar traits

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Species

Question 6

the inhabitants in an area

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Population

Question 7

a group of people living in an area

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Community

Question 8

natural home for animals

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Habitat

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Natural selection

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Evolution

Question 11

an organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances

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 grass

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Primary consumer

Question 14

animal that eats the animal that eats grass

Answer 14

Secondary consumer

Question 15

Tertiary consumer

Answer 15

Tertiary consumer

Question 16

eats plants

Answer 16

Herbivores

Question 17

eats meat or ants

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Carnivores

Question 18

eats meat and plants

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Omnivores

Question 19

decomposes dead things

Answer 19

Decomposers

Question 20

organizes top to bottom of animals where they are in the ecosystem

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Food chain

Question 21

shows what animal eats what

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Food web

Question 22

An energy pyramid is a graphical model of energy flow in a community.

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Energy pyramid

Question 23

the series of processes by which carbon compounds are interconverted in the environment

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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

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Nitrogen Cycle

Question 25

hat describes the movement of phosphorus through the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere.

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Phosphorus Cycle

Question 26

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

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Ecological Succession

Question 27

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

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

Answer 28

Secondary Succession

Question 29

which are the first to colonize previously disrupted or damaged ecosystems

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Pioneer Species

Question 30

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

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Climax Community