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Ecosystems
Test due Friday May 29th
Term | Definition |
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Ecosystem | All the living and nonliving things in an area |
Raptor | Bird of Prey |
Consumer | A living organism that cannot make it's own food |
Biotic | A living thing |
Abiotic | A non-living thing |
Producer | A living organism that makes it's own food |
Predator | An animal that hunts other animals |
Prey | An animal that is hunted |
Adaptation | Something that helps an animal survive in its enviorment |
Instinct | Something you are born knowing |
Carnivore | An animal that only eats meat |
Omnivore | An animal that eats both plants and meat |
Herbivore | An animal that only eats plants |
Habitat | A place where an organism lives |
Chlorophyll | A chemical in chloroplasts and leaf cells that makes leafs green |
Decomposer | Breaks down dead animals and provides nutrients to soil |
Energy | Passed on from animal to animal and plants need it to make their own food |
Energy Pyramid | A pyramid that starts with the Sun than producers than consumers than 2nd level consumers than 3rd level consumers than decomposers |
Scavenger | An animal that only eats dead animals |
Food Web | Overlapping food chains |
Food Chain | The passing through of energy from living things |
Behavioral Adaptation | An adaptation that is a behavior |
Physical Adaptation | An adaptation that is physical |
Photosynthesis | The process of a producer making it's own food |
Migration | The movement from one place to another |
Camouflage | A disguise that makes the animal blend into an enviorment |
Mimicry | When one animal mimics another |