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HW Vocab
Science
Question | Answer |
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Habitat | The place where an organism lives and that provides "the things" the organism needs |
Detritus | Loose matter resulting from the wearing away or disintegration of a tissue or substance |
Detritivores | An organism that uses organic waste as a food source, as certain insects. |
Primary Succession | The changes that occur in an area where no ecosystem has existed |
Secondary Succession | The changes that occur after a disturbance in an ecosystem |
Succession | The replacement of one type of community by another at a single location over a period of time |
Pioneer Species | A species that colonizes an inhabited area and that starts an ecological cycle in which many other species become established. |
Niche | An organism's particular role in an ecosystem or hot it makes its living |
Indigenous | Produced, growing, living or occurring naturally in a particular region or environment |
Endemic | A species that is native to a particular place and that is found only there |
Autotroph | An organism that makes its own food |
Heterotroph | An organism that cannot make its own food |
Crypsis | Avoidance of observation that allows an otherwise visible organism or object to remain hard to see from the surrounding environment through deception. EX: Camouflage |