Ecology Vocab Review

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Energy source in food chain?

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Sun

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Role of consumers in a food chain?

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Eat other species and keep them from overpopulating.

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Role of decomposers in a food chain?

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Break down dead organisms and add nutrients to soil.

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Type of consumer that eats both meat and plants.

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Omnivores

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Type of consumer that eats only meat?

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Carnivores

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Type of consumer that eats only plants?

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Herbivores

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Living individual in organization levels?

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organism

Front

All individuals of a species in the same area at the same time are called?

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population

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Different populations living in the same area at the same time is called?

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community

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When communities combine, including living and nonliving elements, it is called an:

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ecosystem