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Chapta 22
Sec 1 and 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A consumer that eats only animals | carnivore |
| A consumer that eat both plants and animals | omnivore |
| An organism that can make its own food | producer |
| An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms | consumer |
| A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy | food chain |
| The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem | food web |
| A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web | energy pyramid |
| A consumer that eats only plants | herbivore |
| A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms | scavenger |
| An organism hat breaks down chemicals from wastes and dead organisms, andreturns important materials to the soil and water | decomposer |
| A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms | biome |
| A leafy roof formed by tall trees | canopy |
| A layer of shorter plants that grow in the shade of a forest canopy | understory |
| An area that recieves less th 25 centimeters of precipitation per year | desert |
| An are populated by grasses and other nonwoody plants | grassland |
| A grassland close to the equator that recieves as much as 120 centimeers of rain per year | savanna |
| A tree that sheds its leaves and grows new ones each year | deciduos tree |
| A tree that produces its seeds its seeds in cones and that has needle-shaped leaves | coniferous tree |
| An extremely cold, dry biome | tundra |
| Soil that is frozen all year | permafrost |
| A habitat in which thefresh water of a river meets the salt water of the ocean | estuary |
| The area between the highest hightide and lowest low-tide | intertidal zone |
| The region of shallow ocean water over the continental shelf | neritic zone |
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