Vocabulary words

Question 1

Energy pyramid

Answer 1

A model that shows the available amount of energy in each tropic layer in an ecosystem

Question 2

Food web

Answer 2

A model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things

Question 3

Decomposer

Answer 3

Organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms

Question 4

Food chain

Answer 4

A model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things

Question 5

Coniferous

Answer 5

Any of various mostly needle-leaved or scale-leaved, chiefly evergreen, cone-bearing gymnospermous trees or shrubs of the order Conifer-ales, such as pines, spruces, and firs

Question 6

Consumer

Answer 6

An organism that eats other living things to get energy, an organism that does not produce its own food (related word: consume)

Question 7

Biome

Answer 7

A major ecological community such as grassland, tropical rain forest, or desert

Question 8

Deciduous

Answer 8

(Of a tree or shrub) shedding its leaves annually

Question 9

Ecology

Answer 9

A basic presentation of ecological concepts for the visual learner or (study of life)

Question 10

Cycle

Answer 10

A process that repeats (related word:cyclic)

Question 11

Nitrogen Cycle

Answer 11

A process in which nitrogen in the atmosphere enters the soil and becomes part of living organisms then eventually returns to the…

Question 12

Biotic Factors

Answer 12

They are living components of an ecosystem. They are sorted into three groups: producers or autotrophs, consumers or heterotrophs, and decomposers or detritivores.

Question 13

Water Cycle

Answer 13

The continual movement of water between the land, ocean, and the air

Question 14

Abiotic Factors

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A nonliving condition or thing, as climate or habitat, that influences or affects an ecosystem and organisms in it

Question 15

Producer

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An organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants or animals

Question 16

Carbon Cycle

Answer 16

Follows many paths as it cycles between Earth’s land, air, and oceans

Question 17

Predator

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An animal that hunts and eats other animals

Question 18

Pray

Answer 18

An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal

Question 19

Succession

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The progressive replacement of one community by another until a climax community is established.

Question 20

Pioneering species

Answer 20

First specie in an area

Question 21

Mutualism

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Both benefit

Question 22

Commensalism

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One helps/ gets something or benefits and other is not harmed

Question 23

Parasitism

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One gets something or benefits and other is harmed

Question 24

Limiting Factors

Answer 24

Predators, food and water, human activity, population, shelter, space, illness, habitat, offspring, weather, and imbalance of gender. Parry loopant.

Question 25

Carrying capacity

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The number of of quantity or population that can be held in an area

Question 26

Dependent variable

Answer 26

What we are measuring

Question 27

Independent variable

Answer 27

What is being changed by the scientist. The one thing that changes in an experiment.

Question 28

Metric system

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Kilo-1000, hecto-100, deca-10, gram meters liters-1, deci-0.10, centi-0.01, milli-0.001

Question 29

Constant variable

Answer 29

The part in an experiment that stays the same.

Question 30

Hypothesis

Answer 30

An if or then statement. An educated guess from the information you already know