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Flashcards by Benjamin Kardish, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Benjamin Kardish
over 3 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| abiotic | any non living component of the envirement |
| biotic | any living thing found in the envirement |
| biodeversity | the variety of plant or animal material |
| carnivour | an organism that eats other animals only |
| consumer | an organism that eats other living things for energy |
| cycle | a pattern in nature that repeats over time |
| decomposer | an organism that consumes and breaks down dead organisms or waste matter into simple substance |
| detrivore | an organism that feeds on largeparts of decaying plant and animal and on waste material |
| ecology | the study of reltionship beetween organisms, and beetween organism and their envirement |
| ecosystems | the network of interactions that link the living and the non living |
| endangered species | species that are at risk at becomin instinct due to either reduction in numbers or an enviremental threat |
| food chain | a sequance that shows how energy and nutrients are transfered from one organism to another |
| food web | a model that shows how food chains in an ecosystem are connected |
| herbavore | an organism the eats only plants |
| invasive species | a species that has been introduced into an area where it did not exist before often reproduces so aggresively that it some of the original species |
| micro organism | a living thing that is small and must be viewed with the help of a microscope |
| mutulism | an iteraction beetween two species that benefit the both of them |
| native species | species that occur naturally in a area |
| omnivour | an organism the eats both plants and animals |
| photosynthesis | a process by wich plants use water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight to produce sugars |
| predator | and organism that hunts other living things |
| prey | a animal that is hunted by a predator |
| producer | an organism that makes its own food from non living organisms |
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