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Ecosystems
Test due Friday May 29th
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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