ecology terms Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| biosphere | , including water, land and air, where life exists. Biomes combine to form this. |
| herbivores | an animal that eats only plants |
| carnivores | an animal that eats mostly meat |
| omnivores | an animal that eats both plants and meat |
| predators | animals that catches and feeds off of other live animals |
| scavenger | an animal that mostly eats decaying biomass |
| parasites | obtain their food by feeding off another organism |
| detritivores | a consumer that's feeds on organic matter |
| decomposers | a special group of consumers that break down organic matter and release the nutrients back into the ecosystem |
| autotroph | organisms that can make their own food from basic nutrients and sunlight examples: green plant, algae |
| heterotroph | organisms that must feed on other organisms to obtain energy |
| food chains | show a step by step sequence of who eats whom in an ecosystem & the one way flow of energy from the producer to the top level consumer |
| photosynthesis | the process plants use produce carbohydrates from carbon dioxide, water,and sunlight |
| biodiversity | number and range of different organisms in an area |
| toxins | |
| bioaccumulation | gradual build up chemicals in an organisms body |
| respiration | |
| extirpated | species that no longer exist in a particular region but still occurs elsewhere |
| amphibious | born in water , breathing with gills but can live on land or in water |
| carrying capacity | maximum number of individuals that an ecosystem can support without reducing its ability to support future generations of the same species |
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