VOCABULARY TEST REVIEWFirst nine weeks!!!

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Study of organisms and the interactions between them and non living things. Ecology environment biology habitat

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Organism in a symbiotic relationship that is benefitted (but harming) its host host parasite predator herbivore

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Educated guess as to what will happen in an experiment purpose variable conclusion hypothesis

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Single pathway model that shows how organisms get energy in an environment Food web Energy pyramid Food chain photosynthesis

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Organism that rots away other materials for energy consumer producer decomposer scavenger

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Organism that finds and eats dead things for energy consumer decomposer producer scavenger

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Anything that affects or limits the number of organisms that can exist in an environment Carrying capacity niche limiting factor co-evolution

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The living and nonliving surroundings that affect an organism habitat ecosystem environment ecology

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The place in which an organism lives and gets what it needs habitat ecosystem environment ecology

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All the different populations of living things living at the same time in the same place population community species biosphere

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Forested biome at mid-latitudes with moderate temperatures and precipitation Deciduous forest Temperate forest Boreal forest A and B

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Biome at high latitudes near the poles with very cold temperatures, dry climate, and permafrost tundra prairie desert temperate grasssland

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Group of the same type (species) of organisms living in the same place at the same time community population species ecosystem

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Model showing how energy moves up through organisms in an environment; most energy is located at the bottom Food web Food chain Carrying capacity Energy pyramid

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Organisms that must eat other things for food; AKA consumer autotroph heterotroph producer plant

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Symbiotic relationship describing how one organism is the hunter and the other is the prey Co-evolution predation photosynthesis niche

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Process where organisms (usually plants) make their own food with sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide. photosynthesis predation co-evolution niche

 

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Water Temperate biome aquatic terrestrial

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land Temperate biome aquatic terrestrial

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The perfect number of species an environment can hold or support Limiting factor Carrying capacity Habitat niche

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Relationship between organisms where at least one benefits symbiosis competition heterotroph autotroph

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When two or more organisms are trying to get the same resource; stronger or better one wins symbiosis competition mutualism commensalism

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Model that shows overlapping patterns and possibilities of how organisms get energy Food web Food chain Energy pyramid ecosystem

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Symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit commensalism mutualism predation parasitism

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Forested biome just below the tundra at higher latitudes whose predominant species of plant is the pine tree rainforest savanna prairie taiga

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Organism that eats anything- plants AND animals for energy carnivore herbivore omnivore autotroph

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Role an organism has in an ecosystem habitat co-evolution niche limiting factor

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Symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected mutualism parasitism competition commensalism

 

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Organism that makes its own food; AKA producer autotroph heterotroph consumer omnivore

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Biome in Africa; exists just above tropical zones and characterized by few trees, lots of grasses, herbivores and large predators prairie tundra temperate grassland savanna

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Evergreen forest biome with fairly cold winters and cool summers that exist between the tundra and temperate forest areas. Boreal forest Coniferous forest Taiga All of the above

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Aquatic biome with a mix of salt and fresh water marine estuary terrestrial pond

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When two separate species change over time together that benefit both. mutualism commensalism co-evolution niche

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Any living thing abiotic population ecosystem organism

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A change in an organism that allows it to survive better and more successfully niche adaptation herbivore aquatic

 

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Organsim that must eat something else for energy Consumer/heterotroph Heterotroph/autotroph Autotroph/consumer Autotroph/producer

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Organism that makes its own energy; does NOT have to eat other things Consumer/heterotroph Heterotroph/autotroph Autotroph/consumer Autotroph/producer

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A living thing in an ecosystem biotic abiotic limiting factor competition

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Biome at mid latitudes characterized by moderate temperatures and conditions with few trees and lots of grasses; AKA prairie in the US Temperate forest temperate grassland savanna taiga

 

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The community of living things and the non living things with it. All the biotic and abiotic factors in an area. ecosystem environment habitat ecology