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Chapter 9 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Photosynthesis | Were an plant uses sunlight and water to make there own food |
Autotroph | An orgnisims that makes it's own food |
Heteroph | A organism that cannot make it own food such as the zebra or lion, it is called an consumer |
Chlorophyll | The main pigment for photosynthesis |
Producer | Organisms that can make there own food by using Photosynthesis |
Consumer | an orgnims that relies on feeding off of another consumer to get it's energy |
Herbivores | consumers that eat only plants |
Carnivores | Consumer that eat only animals such as wolves, snakes, and walruses |
Omnivores | consumer that eat both plants and animals such as bears |
Scavenger | organims that eats meat off of an already eat off of carcus |
Decompeser | Breaks down dead orgnim sand releases he nuritnets back into the ground |
Food Chain | One way how too show how energy flows in an ecosystem |
Food Web | Conists of may over lapping food chians in an ecostyem |
Energy Pyramid | Shows the amount of energy that flows from one feeding level to another |
Evaprotion | Were water encporates or turns nto steam |
Condesation | the procees were gas changes into liquid |
precaition | when it rains |
Nitrogen fixation | procees of cahging nitrogen into usable nitrogen |
Biome | where animals live |
climate | how warm or cold somthing is |
Dersert | where sand is everywhere |
Rain Forest | Where foret see a lot of rain |
emergent layer | where sunlight can reach up to 70 meters |
canopy | where the tree tops block he sunlight |
understory | where plants grow benths trees |
Grassland | flatlands |
savnna | recives as munch as taking 12 centmeter of rain an year |
Deciduous trees | the trees that grow new leaves every year |
Boreal forest | are desne frorest |
coniferous trees | there are everygreen trees |
tundra | where alot of snow is |
permafrost | the first frost of the year |