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Ecology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Consumer that eats only plants | Herbivore |
| A group of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms | Biome |
| The organism that a parasite lives in or on in parasitism | Host |
| An organism's particular role in an ecosystem, or how it makes a living | Niche |
| Process by which individuals that are better adapted to the environment are more likely to survive and reproduce than others | Natural Selection |
| ___ population is the population of organisms that is cared for by humans | Captive |
| All the different populations that live together in an area | Community |
| ___ program is the conservation strategy that returns organisms to an area where the species once lived and may involve seed banks, captive population, and relocation | Reintroduction |
| Variety of life in an ecosystem, most commonly measured by number of species that live in a given area | Biodiversity |
| A consumer that eats both plants and animals | Omnivore |
| An organism that breaks down the wastes and dead organisms | Decomposer |
| _____ species -species that is likely to become endangered in the near future because of factors such as overhunting, introduced species and pollution | threatened |
| Consumer that eats only animals | Carnivore |
| An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another | Predation |
| _____ species- original organisms in an ecosystem | Native |
| All members of one species in a particular area | Population |
| _____ species-Species that move into an ecosystem as a result of human actions and can reduce or eliminate populations of native species | Introduced |
| A living part of an ecosystem | Biotic Factor |
| An organism that is able to capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and used it to produce its own foood | Autotroph |
| The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem | Foodweb |
| Group of organisms that share similar characteristics and can reproduce among themselves | Species |
| A relationship between two species in which both species benefit | Mutualism |
| A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web | Energy Pyramid |
| An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms | Consumer |
| ____ restoration- Process of bringing a damaged habitat back to a healthy condition. | Habitat |
| The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time. | Succession |
| All the living and nonliving things that interact in an area | Ecosystem |
| A nonliving part of an ecosystem | Abiotic factor |
| An inherited structural or behavioral change that helps an organism survive in its particular environment | Adaptation |
| An organism that cannot make its own food and gets food by consuming other living things | Heterotroph |
| A relationship in which one organism lives on or inside another and harms it | Parasitism |
| Variety of life in an ecosystem, most commonly measured by the number of species that live in a given area | Biodiversity |
| The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment | Ecology |
| The close relationship between species that benefits at least one of the species | Symbiosis |
| A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed | Commensalism |
| An organism that can make its own food | Producer |
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