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19 Cards in this Set
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Organism that is hunted for food |
Prey |
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Organism that hunts animals for food |
Predator |
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Organisms of the same species that live in the same area and breed with each other |
Population |
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Origianl energy source for all food chains |
Sun |
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Organism that makes its own food |
Producer or Autotroph |
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Living thing (such as a plant or animal) |
Organism |
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Trait that helps an organism live and meet its needs long enough to reproduce |
Adaptation |
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Struggle among organisms for an ecosystems limited resources |
Competition |
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Organism that feeds on other organisms (such as plants or animals) |
Consumer or Heterotroph |
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Organism that breaks down dead organisms and the waste of organisms. |
Decomposer |
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Mix of all living and nonliving things and conditions in an area |
Ecosystem |
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Single path that shows how energy transfers to organisms |
Food Chain |
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Network of food chains that shows how energy transfers to organisms in an ecosystem |
Food Web |
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Organism that survives on a host organism and causes harm to the host |
Parasite |
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An organism that is used by another organism for nutrients, shelter, or transport, and is harmed by the relationship |
Host |
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Relationship between organisms where one is benefited and the other is neither benefited nor harmed |
Commensalism |
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Relationship between organisms where both benefit |
Mutualism |
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Nonliving factors that affect the ecosystem: light, space, temperature, shelter, water, soil composition |
Abiotic factors |
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Living factors that affect the ecosystem: food sources, other population members, other species |
Biotic factors |
