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Ecosystems
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| organism | any living thing |
| energy pyramid | a triangular diagram that shows an ecosystems loss of energy |
| producer | organisms that use energy in sunlight to make their own food |
| consumer | organisms that cannot make their own energy. They must eat to gain energy |
| food chain | shows how energy flows from one organism to another |
| food web | shows the feeding relationships between organisms in the ecosystem |
| primary consumer | consumers that eat producers to get energy |
| secondary consumer | consumers that eat another consumer for energy |
| herbivore | consumers that only eat plants |
| carnivore | consumers that only eat meat |
| omnivore | consumers that eat plants and animals |
| scavenger | eats dead plants and animals |
| decomposer | they are the final link of the energy cycle and they return nutrients to the environment |
| stimulus | anything in the environment that causes a response in an organism |
| response | reaction to the stimulus |
| adaptation | a structure or behavior that helps an organism survive and function better in it's environment |
| dormancy | a period of inactivity where it does not grow in order to survive unfavorable environmental conditions |
| germination | when a seed begins to sprout |
| tropism | plant growth in response to a stimulus |
| phototropism | plant growth in response to light |
| thermotropism | plant growth in response to heat |
| geotropism | plant growth in response to gravity |
| biome | a large geographical area with similar climates and ecosystems |
| biotic factor | living parts of the environment |
| abiotic factor | non-living parts of the environment |
| limiting factor | any biotic or abiotic factor that causes a population to decrease |
| community | populations of different species that live in the same area |
| individual | any living thing or organism |
| tolerance | the ability of an organism to survive changes in biotic and abiotic environmental factors |
| population | a group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area |
| ecosystem | the relationship between the living and nonliving parts of an environment |
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