Ecology vocabulary

What is a population?

• less than one at a field

• a one horned, one eyed, flying purple people eater

• More than one of the same species

• one that is found by the barn

What word means NOT alive?

What is an organism?

• One member of a species

• A machine that can perform basic life functions.
• A group of cells that cannot perform basic life functions.
• A non-living entity with a cellular structure that can perform basic life functions.

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In science, what is a producer?

• A person who produces movies in Holleywood

• A person who grows/produces vegetables in a garden

• An organism that has to shop at a store to obtain its food

• an organism that converts simple inorganic matter (such as water and carbon dioxide) into organic matter (like sugar and protein).

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What are carnivores?

• A person that works at a circus

• consumers or animals that eat other aninals (consumers)

• A consumer that eats plants

• A type of dinosaur

The first species to arrive in an ecosystem

• Consumer species

• Omnivore species

• Herbivore Species

• Pioneer species

What is a consumer or organism that eats mostly plants AND animals?

What is an herbivore?

• An organism that has to eat another animal, meat, to survive.

• Are the vegetarions of the world, which means these organisms only eat plants to obtain energy

• A spice you sprinkle onto your food

• A dinosaur

What word means alive

Consumer

• any bug that sucks your blood

• Any rock that is found in nature

• any organism that feeds on organic matter because it cannot produce it.

• Most plants

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