ecology

Question 1

ecology

Answer 1

organisms interacting with their physical environment

Question 2

biotic factor

Answer 2

living thing

Question 3

abiotic factor

Answer 3

nonliving things

Question 4

organism

Answer 4

individual animal plant or single celled organism

Question 5

species

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group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of swapping genes with reproduction

Question 6

population

Answer 6

amount of an organism in the same place

Question 7

community

Answer 7

a group of people who live in an area that all have similar characteristics

Question 8

habitat

Answer 8

a natural home of a plant animal or other living organism

Question 9

natural selection

Answer 9

only those best fit for survival will make it

Question 10

evolution

Answer 10

changes in the body to adapt to an environment

Question 11

producers/ autographs

Answer 11

an organism that can produce their own food through a chemical process

Question 12

consumers/ heterotrophs

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receive energy by consuming other things

Question 13

primary consumer

Answer 13

herbivores that eat plants

Question 14

secondary consumers

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carnivores that feed off of other living things

Question 15

tertiary consumer

Answer 15

top of the food chain feeds off of carnivores

Question 16

herbivores

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feed off of plants

Question 17

carnivores

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feed off of other living things

Question 18

omnivores

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feeds off of other living things or plants

Question 19

decomposers

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digests the dead plants and animals taking everything but the bones

Question 20

food chain

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sequence of how energy in the form of food is transferred from animal to animal

Question 21

food web

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interlocking and interdependent food chains

Question 22

energy pyramid

Answer 22

feeding relationship of animals and how energy is transferred through each one