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27 Cards in this Set
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Environment |
The surroundings in which a living thing exists. |
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Ecosystem |
A community of living things and their environment. |
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Habitat |
Where an animal or plant lives. |
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Population |
The plants, animals, or micro-organisms of the one species that lives in a particular place. |
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Community |
A collection of different living things that are found in the same area at the same time. |
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System |
A perceived whole, whose elements hang together because they continually affect each other over time and towards some common purpose (e.g. ecosystem). |
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Biosphere |
That part of the Earth which consists of living things. |
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Aquatic |
Living in water. |
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Conserve |
To preserve; to keep in a safe and healthy state. |
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Arid |
Having very little rainfall; dry. |
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Arable |
Able to produce crops. |
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Exotic |
Of foreign origin. |
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Perennial |
Surviving for many years. |
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Trophic level |
The feeding level occupied by a consumer organism. |
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Producers |
Organisms which are able to use inorganic materials to make complex organic substances. |
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Consumers |
Organisms that take in organic substances ready-made. They obtain their energy by eating plants or other animals. |
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Herbivores |
Animals that eat producer organisms directly, and do not eat other animals. |
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Carnivores |
Organisms that only eat animals or parts of animals. |
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Onmivores |
Organisms whose diet includes both plant and animal matter. |
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Decomposers |
Living things (such as bacteria, fungi and protista) that obtain their energy by decomposing the remains of dead organisms into basic nutrients. |
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Binomial nomenclature |
Two-word naming system e.g. that used to name organisms. |
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List eight features of living things |
Growth, development, reproduction, response to stimuli, intake of nutrients, assimilation, excretion, death. |
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Monera |
The biological kingdom of single celled bacteria. |
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Protists |
A biological kingdom including single-celled protozoans, and single- or multi-celled algae. |
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Fungi |
A biological kingdom including moulds, yeasts and mushrooms. |
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Plantae |
A biological kingdom consisting of multi-cellular organisms that carry out photosynthesis and whose cell walls contain cellulose. |
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Animalia |
A biological kingdom consisting of multi-cellular organisms which eat other organisms and whose cells have no cell walls. |
