Unit 6: Biomes & Ecology vocab (ADV)

What is an autotroph?

• An organism that produces its own food from raw ma
• A tree that produces cones.

• Organisms that break down dead organisms.

What does biotic mean?

• All the non-living things in an ecosystem.

• All the living things in an ecosystem.

• Organisms that eat meat.

• All the living things in an ecosystem.

What does Coniferous mean?

• Trees or shrubs that lose their leaves.

• A tree that produces cones and usually has leaves that stay green all year.

• Organisms that break down dead organisms.

• Trees or shrubs that lose their leaves.

Define a decomposer.

• A heterotroph that feeds on dead and decomposing o
• Organisms that break down dead organisms.

• A tree that produces cones.

What is an 'Energy Pyramid'?

• Triangular diagram showing the loss of energy at each level of the food chain.

• A diagram that shows how the energy flows from one organism to the next.

• A partially enclosed body of water where fresh water from rivers mixes with salt water from the ocean.

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Food Web: A complex diagram showing the transfer of energy pathways in an ________.

• ecosystem

• organism

• cell

• community

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Habitat: The place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and ________.

• thrives

• dies

• sleeps

• eats

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Herbivore: Consumers that eat ________.

• plants

• meat

• insects

• fish

Heterotroph/consumer: Organisms that get food from an outside ________.

• source

• environment

• organism

• system

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Interdependence: All organisms in an ecosystem depend upon each ________.

• other

• self

• environment

• species

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