5th Grade ecosystems
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| individual | a single organism in an environment
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| population | individuals of the same kind living in the same environment
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| community | all the populations of organisms living together in an environment
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| habitat | a place in an ecosystem where a population lives
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| producer | an organism that makes it's own food
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| niche | the roll each population has in it's habitat
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| consumers | an organism in a community that must eat to get energy it needs
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| energy pyramid | shows the amount of energy available to pass from one level of a food chain to the next
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| competition | the contest among organisms for the limited resources of an ecosystem
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| instinct | a behavior that an organism inherits
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| symbiosis | a long term relationship between different kinds of organisms
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| learned behavior | a behavior an animal learns from it's parents
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| extinct | no longer in existence - discribes a species when the last individual of a population dies and that organism is gone forever
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| exotic | an imported or non-native organism
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| endangered | a term describing a population of organisms that is likely to become extinct if steps are not taken to save it
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| threatened | describes a population of organisms that is likely to become endangered if they are not protected
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| eco system | a community and it's physical environment together
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| decomposer | composes and breaks down the tissues of dead organisms
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| food chain | the ways in which the organisms in an ecosystem interact with one another according to what they eat
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| food web | shows the interactions among many different food chains in a single ecosystem
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