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Chapta 22
Sec 1 and 4
Question | Answer |
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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 |