Ecosystem Vocab

Front

What is the position an organism occupies in a food chain?

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Trophic Level

Front

What is an ecosystem?

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Organisms interacting with their physical environment.

Front

What is a symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other organism neither benefits nor is harmed?

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Commensalism

Front

What model shows the amount of energy available in each link of a food chain?

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Energy Pyramid

Front

What do you call an organism that eats other organisms for energy?

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Consumer

Front

What is the term for organisms that produce their own food through photosynthesis?

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Producers

Front

What is the term for the variety of life in a particular habitat or ecosystem?

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Biodiversity

Front

What is the relationship called where both organisms benefit?

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Mutualism

Front

What is the process by which decomposers break down dead organic material?

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Decomposition

Front

What is the term for organisms that break down dead material and recycle nutrients back into the ecosystem?

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Decomposers