4th Qtr Science Exam Flashcards
Vocabulary (23 cards)
An animal that eats only plants
Herbivore
An animal that eats other animals or products of other animals
carnivore
An animal that eats both plants and animals
omnivore
Process that plants use to make glucose using carbon dioxide, light and water
photosynthesis
Green substance in plant cells that absorbs light energy and helps the plant perform photosynthesis.
chlorophyll
An animal that uses energy from their body to keep their body at a steady temperature
endotherm
An animal that depends on its environment to warm its body
ectotherm
the chemical processes animals use to break down or build molecules
metabolism
The living and nonliving things in an area
ecosystem
non-living parts of an ecosystem.
abiotic
living parts of an ecosystem
biotic
all organisms living in an ecosystem
community
to affect another organism and be affected by it.
interact
An organism that can make its own nutrients, usually with energy from the sun.
producer
an organism that breaks down the bodies of dean organisms.
decomposer
an organism that is to small to see.
microbe
an organism that needs to eat other organisms to survive
consumer
a model that shows how matter and energy flow from one organism to another
food chain
a model of the transfer of energy with in a set of interconnected food chains
food web
a series of changes in a community of an ecosystem
succession
when two or more organisms need the same limited resource to survive.
competition
steady or unchanging
stable
a series of events or processes that repeats over and over
cycle
