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Parts of an Ecosystem
Relationships
Nutrition
Changes in Ecosystems
Energy
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Any organism that performs photosynthesis.
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What are producers or autotrophs?
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Any organism that must obtain food and eat to
obtain nutrients.
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What are consumers or heterotrophs?
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Any organism that causes dead organisms to decay,
recycling nutrients back into the soil.
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What are decomposers?
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Term meaning Organic material that is present
in an ecosystem. This type of factor is either an
organism (dead or alive), or some product of an
organism (like feces or tree sap).
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What are biotic factors?
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Three examples of Abiotic Factors that are found
in Earths cycles.
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What are water, carbon and, nitrogen?
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Animal that hunts for its food.
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What predators?
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Animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.
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What are prey?
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Type of symbiosis where one organism benefits by
harming another organism.
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What is parasitism?
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Type of symbiosis where both organisms benefit
from their close interaction.
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What is mutualism?
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The type of symbiosis where one organism benefits
from a close interaction and the other organism
is unaffected.
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What is commensalism?
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What do Producers produce?
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What is glucose or chemical energy?
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Primary consumers in a food chain must always eat
what kind of food?
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What are green plants?
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Term used to describe animals that eat both
plants and other animals.
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What are omnivores?
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The term used to describe animals that eat
producers.
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What are herbivores?
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Term used to describe a complicated pattern of
overlapping food chains.
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What are food webs?
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An organisms role in the ecosystem.
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What is its niche?
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Process of change that occurs in an ecosystem as
new plant and animal life enter.
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What are climax communities?
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Term used to describe a foreign species that
enters a new ecosystem and has little competition
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What alien or exotic species?
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Failure of a species to adapt to a changing
ecosystem will result in the ___________ of that
species.
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What is extinction?
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Most of the energy that is present in an
ecosystem comes from this source.
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What is the sun?
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Type of organism that can transform light energy
into chemical energy.
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What are green plants?
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Percentage of energy lost at each step up on the
food chain.
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What is 90 percent?
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How energy is lost as it is transferred to the
next level of the food chain.
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What is heat energy from metabolism?
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These two types of organisms must be present in
order for an ecosystem to be self-sustaining.
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What are producers and decomposers?
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The levels of an energy pyramid.
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What are trophic levels?