Chapter 3 Vocabulary

Question 1

scientific investigation of interactions amidst organisms and between organisms and their environment

Answer 1

Ecology

Question 2

a section of the Earth where life lives which goes along with land, water, and air or atmosphere

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Biosphere

Question 3

cluster of alike organisms that breed and make fertile offspring

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Species

Question 4

cluster of single of alike species that live in common areas

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Population

Question 5

collection of contrasting populations that live together in a general area

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Community

Question 6

accumulation of all organisms that live in a specific location, together with their nonliving environment

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Ecosystem

Question 7

Accumulation of ecosystems that have comparable climate and dominant communities

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Biome

Question 8

process when elements, chemical compounds, and alternative forms of matter are transferred from one organism, to other organisms, and then from one section of a biosphere, to another part of the biosphere

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Biogeochemical cycle

Question 9

Process when H2O transforms from a liquid to a gas

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Evaporation

Question 10

Loss of H2O from a plant from its leaves

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Transpiration

Question 11

Chemical material that an organism needs to live

Answer 11

Nutrient

Question 12

Process of changing nitrogen gas into amonia

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Nitrogen fixation

Question 13

Exchange of nitrates into nitrogen gas

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Dentrification

Question 14

Rate when organic matter is made by producers in the ecosystem

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Primary productivity

Question 15

Independent nutrient that is limited or moved around slow, which prohibits the rate of an organisms growth in an ecosystem

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Limiting nutrient

Question 16

A quick escalation in the amount of algae and alternative producers that result from a big input of a limiting nutrient

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Algal bloom

Question 17

organism that can grasp energy from sunlight of chemicals and use it to make food from inorganic compounds: aka: a producer

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Autotroph

Question 18

organism that can grasp energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to make food from inorganic compounds; aka: an Autotroph

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Producer

Question 19

Process when plants and other organisms use light energy to transfer H2O and carbon dioxide to oxygen and great-energy, carbohydrates- sugar and starches

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Photosynthesis

Question 20

Process with a few organisms like bacteria use chemical energy runs to make carbs

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Chemosynthesis

Question 21

Get energy from the food it eats: a.k.a. consumers

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Heterotroph

Question 22

Organism that is dependent on another organism for its food stock and energy a.k.a. Heterotroph

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Consumer

Question 23

Animal that gets energy by consuming plants

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Herbivore

Question 24

Animal that gets energy by eating other animals

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Carnivore

Question 25

An animal that gets energy from consuming plants and animals

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Omnivore

Question 26

Animal that consumes plant and animal remnants and other dead material

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Detritivore

Question 27

Organism that Falls down and gets get energy from dead, organic material

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Decomposer

Question 28

Multiple steps in an ecosystem when organisms move energy when they eat, and when they are in eaten

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Food chain

Question 29

Arrangement of a difficult interactions made by the eating relationships between organisms in an ecosystem

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Food web

Question 30

Advancement in a food chain or food web

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Trophic level

Question 31

Chart that elaborates that associates amount of energy or matter in each graphic level in a food or web chain

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Ecological pyramid

Question 32

Entire bundle of living tissue in a certain Trophic level

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Biomass