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Chapter 22/ Vocab
Section 1 & 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| an organism that makes its own food | producer |
| an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms | consumer |
| eat only animals | carnivore |
| eat both plants and animals | omnivore |
| a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms | scavenger |
| break down wastes and dead organisms and return raw materials to the ecosystem | decomposer |
| a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy | food chain |
| consists of the many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem | food web |
| shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web | energy pyramid |
| 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 than 25 centimeters of precipitation per year | desert |
| an area populated by grasses and other nonwoody plants | grassland |
| a grassland close to the equator that recieves as much as 120 centimeters of rain per year | savanna |
| Trees that shed their leaves and grow new ones each year | deciduous tree |
| Trees that have their seed in cones and leaves shaped like needles | conferous tree |
| Extremely cold and dry biome | tundra |
| Frozen soil | permafrost |
| Where fresh water of a river meets the salt water of an ocean | estuary |
| intertidal zone | |
| neritic zone |
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