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Unit E
My Vocab Words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ecologists | scientists who study relationships between organisms and environments example:Tina Booton |
| Introduced Species | a species that was introduced to an area that it didn't start in example: zebra mussel |
| Plankton | microscopic animals and plants |
| Photosynthesis | plants use sunlight as energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into food CO2+H2O-O2+C6H22O11 |
| Producers | are able to produce their own sugar example: plants |
| Consumers | organisms that get their energy by eating organisms example: humans |
| Food Webs | feeding relationships in an ecosystem (graph) example: a food web would have owls, mice, and grass |
| Endothermic | characterized by or formed with absorption of heat (warm-blooded) example: humans |
| Ectothermic | deriving heat from without the body (cold-blooded) example: snakes |
| Carrying Capacity | the maximum population that an area will support without becoming worse example: zebra mussels |
| Food Chain | a sequence of organisms in a community in which each feds on others example: grass-mouse-owls |
| Decomposers | an organism that feeds on and breaks down dead pants or animal matter example: worms |
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