Vocab Flashcards
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Energy pyramid
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A model that shows the available amount of energy in each trophic layer in an ecosystem.
2
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Food web
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A model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things.
3
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Decomposer
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Organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms
4
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Food chain
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A model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things
5
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Coniferous
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Explores the various types of biomes that exist on the planet
6
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Consumer
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An organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that does not produce its own food
7
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Biome
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A major ecological community such as a grass land, tropical rainforest, or desert
8
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Deciduous
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A forest containing trees that lose their leaves each year.
