Elevate Science: Vocabulary Chapters 5.3 and 6

Front

The place where an organism makes it's home.

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habitat

Front

a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life.

Back

ecosystem

Front

An upright pyramid that illustrates the flow of energy from producers to consumers.

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food pyramid

Front

the nonliving parts of an ecosystem

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abiotic factors

Front

each step in a food chain or food web

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trophic level

Front

describes the direct link of energy between who eats whom in the wild

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food chain

Front

a predator at the top of a food chain, without natural predators of its own

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apex predator

Front

a bioindicator that serves as a warning that an ecosystem is being damaged.

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indicator species

Front

cannot produce its own food, takes nutrition from other plant or animal matter

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heterotroph

Front

a group of ecosystems with a similar climate that contains a large community of similar plants and animals

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biome