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25 Cards in this Set
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Food Chain
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A sequence of organisms that eat one another
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Food Web
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All the feeding relationships in an ecosystem
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Producer
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An organism that is able to produce its own food in a process called photosysnthesis
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Consumer
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An organisom that eats other organisms
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Decomposer
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An organism that consumes parts of dead organisms and transfers all the piomass into simple chemicals
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carnivore
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An organism that eats only meat
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herbavore
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An organism that eats only plants (also a name for a primary consumer)
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omnivore
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A consumer that eats both plants and animals
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autotroph (producer)
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An organism that makes their own food
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heteratroph (carnivore)
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An organism that cannot make its own food and must eat other organisms
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organism
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Ta living thing
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species
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a kind of organism that is different from all other kinds of organisms
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habitat
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where an organism lives
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gender
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male or female |
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individual
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one single organism
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population
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All of the individuals of one kind (one species) in a specific area
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community |
All of the populations in a specific area |
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ecosystem |
A system of interacting organisms and non-living factors in a specific area |
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biotic |
living |
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abiotic |
non-living |
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reproductive potential |
theoretical unlimited growth of a population over time |
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limiting factors |
Any biotic or abiotic component of the ecosystems that controls the size of the population |
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adaptions |
Any trait of an organism that increases its chance of surviving and reproducing |
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feature |
A structure, characteristic or behavior of an organism |
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trait |
The specific way a feature is expressed on an individual organism. |
