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Pond life
Vocabulary and Info for midterm 2011
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An organism that is so small that it can not be seen clearly with the naked eye | Microscopic organism |
| A representation of a much larger pond ecosystem. | Microcosm |
| An area with many different organisms living together | Community |
| Any non-living part of a community such as rock, temperature | Abiotic factor |
| Any living part of a community such as a plant or animal | Biotic factor |
| The first link in a food chain, makes its own food | producer |
| Green plants use energy from the ________ to produce their own food and create oxygen | Sun |
| An animal that eats only plants | Herbivore |
| An animal that preys only on animals for food | Carnivore |
| An animal that eats both plants and animals | Omnivore |
| Organisims that eat plants are _______ consumers | Primary |
| Organisms that eat the primary consumers are called | Secondary consumer |
| Organisms that eat the secondary consumers are called | Tertiary Consumer |
| A way of showing how energy moves from one organism to the next | Energy pyramid |
| Energy __________ as it moves from the base of the energy pyramid to the top of the pyramid | Decreases |
| A diagram that links several food chains together | Food web |
| Any trait that helps an organism survive in the environment | Adaptation |
| Emergent vegetation, submerged vegetation, floating vegetation, open water, surface, bottom and shore | Zones of the pond |
| When organisms rely on each other in order to create/maintain a balanced ecosystem | Interdependence |
| A large branch of science that studies the interactions of organisms with each other and their environment | Ecology |
| The interaction between living and non-living factors in a given area | Ecosystem |
| Organism large enough to be seen with the naked eye. Ex. dragonfly, frog, water strider | Macroscopic organism |
| An animal large enough to be seen without a microscope but DOES NOT have a backbone. | Invertebrate |
| Part of the microscope where you place the slide. | Stage |
| You hold these two parts of the microscope if you need to carry it. | Base and arm |
| Part of the microscope you look into to magnify your specimen. This has a 10x magnification. | Eyepiece |
| When you use the low power objective (4x) and the eyepiece, the object is now magnified | 40x's |
| The medium objective lense magnifies the specimen how many times? | 10x's |
| Is composed of one producer, a primary and secondary consumer. | Food chain |
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