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50 Cards in this Set
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An organism that eats other organisms is called an... |
consumer |
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An organism that makes its own food is NOT called a heterotroph but an... |
Autotroph |
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An organism that eats meat is called... |
Carnivore |
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An organism that eats only plants is called a... |
herbivore |
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An organism that eats both plants and animals is called a... |
omnivore |
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The energy found in nutrients originates from... |
Sun |
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When two or more organisms fight for the same resources... |
Competion |
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This biome is when salt water and freshwater meet |
Estuary |
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This biome has a lot of pressure... |
Deep Ocean |
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The organism that gets eaten is called a |
prey |
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This biome is warm, has few trees, a lot of grass. |
Savvanah |
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This biome has frozen permafrost |
Alpine Tundra |
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A single living thing is also known as... |
An organsim |
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This biome is located in high elevations and is usualy treeless |
Arctic Tundra |
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These organisms break down the remains of dead organisms and return the nutrients to the environment |
Decomposer |
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The organism that eats the other is called |
predator |
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This biome is characterized as cold winters and warm summers |
Deciduous forest |
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A relationship where one organism benefit while the other is harmed |
parasitism |
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Many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem |
Food web |
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In the energy pyramid an organism that eats the producer is called |
Primary consumer |
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All the population in an ecosystem are called |
Community |
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A relationship between two or more organisms are called |
Symbiosis |
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When one animal kills and hunts |
Predator |
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Every place on earth that can support life is called |
biosphere |
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This biome has diversity has standing water |
Wetlands |
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A relationship where one organism benefits while the other gets nithing is called |
Commensalism |
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A group of interbreeding organisms living in the same area |
population |
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This biome has very little precipitation and hot during the day and cold during the night |
desert |
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This biome has cold and warm currents |
Open Ocean |
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In the energy pyramid an organsim that eats the secondary consumer is |
tertiary |
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A relationship when both organisms benefit |
mutualism |
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A major type of ecosystem |
biome |
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Four major resources that affect population density are habitat, food, mates, and___ |
water |
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This biome is where ocean meets land and has communities that change with the changing tides |
Intertidal zone |
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Energy _____ as you go up the food chain |
Decreases |
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This biome contains water that moves in one direction |
Rivers or streams |
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This biome is like the rainforest of the sea |
coral reef |
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This biome has coniferous trees, snow, and animals |
Taiga |
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The first organism in the energy pyramid is always |
Producer |
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Another name for a consumer is a |
Heterotroph |
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This biome has a lot of rainfall |
yRainforest |
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All living organisms in an area and all nonliving features of their environment is called |
Ecosystem |
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A series of events in which one organism eats another and gets energy |
Food Chain |
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This biome has grasses and few trees has prarie dogs |
Prarie |
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The amount of energy passed in the energy pyramid is |
10% |
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A living part of an ecosystem is called |
Biotic |
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Nonliving things are called |
Abiotic |
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A factor that determines whether a population decreases or increases |
limiting factor |
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This is the study of the interactions of living things |
Ecology |
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An organism that feeds on other dead organisms is called |
Scavenger |
