Unit 12 Vocabulary
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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| Terrestrial | land
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| Aquatic | water
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| Freshwater Ecosystems | aquatic ecosystems with less than 1% salt content
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| Marine Ecosystems | aquatic ecosystems with at least 3.5% salt content
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| Food Chain | The path of food energy from the Sun, to the producer, then transferred to a series of consumers.
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| Food Web | Overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow of food energy in an ecosystem.
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| Producer | An organism that is capable of performing photosynthesis, transforming energy from the Sun, and using carbon dioxide and water to make food.
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| Consumer | An organism that must consume other organisms for nutrients.
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| Herbivore | An organism that consumes only plants.
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| Carnivore | An organism that consumes other animals.
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| Omnivore | An organism that consumes both animals and plants.
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| Parasite | An organism that survives on a host organism and causes harm to the host.
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| Host | An organism that is used by another organism for nutrients, shelter, or transport; it is harmed by the relationship.
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| Predator | An organism that hunts for its food.
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| Prey | An organism that is hunted by other organisms for food.
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| Decomposer | Organisms such as bacteria and fungi that break down the remains of dead plants and animals, without need for internal digestion.
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| Detritivore | Organisms that do not kill their own food, but eat dead or decaying plants or animals.
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| -troph | an organism that gets nourishment from a (specified) source
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| Trophic Level | The position an organism occupies on the food web.
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| Autotroph | An organism that produces its own food, such as a plant.
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| Heterotroph | An organism that must use other organisms for food, such as animals.
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| Energy Pyramid | A diagram that shows the trophic levels of organisms in a food web.
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You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
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