First Quarter Interim Vocabulary Review (Ecology)
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Biotic | The living parts of an ecosystem.
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| Abiotic | The non-living parts of an ecosystem.
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| Producer/Autotroph | An organism that makes its own food through photosynthesis.
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| Consumer/Heterotroph | An organism that consumes other organisms for energy.
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| Decomposer | An organism that breaks down dead, decaying organisms and returns nutrients back into the soil.
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| Herbivore | And organism that eats only plants.
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| Carnivore | An organism that eats only meat.
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| Omnivore | An organism that eats BOTH plants and animals.
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| Scavenger | And organism that eats dead organisms.
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| Food Chain | A model that shows how matter and energy move through an ecosystem in a series of steps showing which organisms transfer energy by eating or being eaten. Each level of a food chain represents a feeding step in the transfer of matter and energy.
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| Food Web | A model that shows all of the possible feeding relationships in each trophic level; It links all of the food chains in an ecosystem.
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| The Sun's Role in Food Chains and Food Webs | It is the ultimate source of energy for all living things.
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| Energy Pyramid | A model that shows how energy flows up the food chain.
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| Symbiosis | A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species.
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| Mutualism | A relationship in which both species benefit.
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| Commensalism | A relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed.
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| Parasitism | A relationship where one organism lives inside the other and harms it.
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| Predator | An organism that eats other animals for food. They are usually carnivores or omnivores.
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| Prey | An organism that usually gets eaten by a predator. They are usually herbivores.
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| Competition | The act of competing for resources in an environment with other species.
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