Living Environment Vocab

Match the following definitions

• All chemical processes in the body

• Metabolism

• A balanced state in the body

• Feedback Mechanism

• Another way to say "Homeostasis"

• Homeostasis

• Cycles to maintain homeostasis

• Dynamic Equilibrium

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​ (a)   are self feeders that use ​ (b)   materials from the environment such as ​ (c)   and synthesize ​ (d)   materials for their own purposes such as ​ (e)   .

• Autotrophs

• inorganic

• carbon dioxide

• organic

• glucose

• Heterotrophs

• Carnivores

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Match the following

• making its own food

• Abiotic

• consuming others

• Synthesize

• living

• Biotic

• build a molecule

• Autotrophic

• non-living

• Heterotrophic

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must consume (eat) other ​ (a)   in order to get nutrients they need to live. Examples of heterotrophs are ​ (b)   and fungus.

• Heterotrophs

• organisms

• animals

• plants

• algae

• Autotroph

What is an autotroph?

• An organism that makes its own food

• An organism that does NOT make its own food

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WHat is a heterotroph?

• An organism that does NOT make its own food

• An organism that makes its own food

What is homeostasis?

• maintaining relatively constant internal conditions

• the process of getting (obtaining) food

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Any living component that affects another organism or once were living

• habitat

• biotic factor

• abiotic factor

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The study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment

• Physics

• Ecology

• Chemistry

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An area where a community of organisms live along with the nonliving environment.

• Ecosystem

• Biotic System

• Abiotic System

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