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spring break science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| biotic community | all the living organisms in a community |
| carnivore | organism that eats only animals |
| circadian | rhythms occuring in a 24hr rhythm |
| consumer | organism that uses food made by other organisms |
| cyclic | reoccuring in cycles |
| decomposer | organism that breaks down dead organisms and returns this material to the soil |
| detrivore | organism that consumes detritus |
| ecological pyramid | a triangle-shaped illustration that is divided into layers to show energy relationships in an organism |
| ecology | the study of relationships between organisms and their physical environment |
| ecosystem | a limited area in which living and nonliving things interact |
| food chain | a passing of materials and energy from one organism to another |
| food web | a method of illustrating the interrelationships between food chains in an ecosystem |
| habitat | place where an organism lives |
| herbivore | an organism who eats only plants |
| niche | role or function of an organism in its environment |
| omnivore | organism that eats both plants and animals |
| physical environment | all the nonliving factors in its environment |
| producer | organism that makes it own food |
| seasonal | rhythms that take place over a years time |
| important part of the biotic community; Gods steward to the environment | YOU |
| an animal that eats another animal | predator |
| an animal that is eaten by another animal | prey |
| the relationship between two organisms that are using the same factor in the environment | competition |
| the relationship in which one organism is benefited and the other organism is not helped or hurt | commensalism |
| the type of organism that does not live with others of its species | independant |
| the type of organism that does live with others of its species | social |
| an organism that eats dead decaying bodies | scavenger |
| a word that means used over and over again | cyclic |
| a plant that grows on another plant but does not recieve nourishment from the plant it grows on | epiphyte |
| a group of birds | flock |
| the relationship in which both organisms are benefitted | mutualism |
| a way to describe organisms that look like their surroundings | camoflage |
| bright colors or markings on an organism that advertise an organisms presense | warning coloration |
| a relationship in which an organism appears very similar to another organism | mimicry |
| an organism that feeds off another living organism | parasite |
| a living organism that supplies materials to another organism | host |
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