Biology Terms
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ProfKersplat on February 28, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Producer | an organism that makes its own food using the energy of the sun |
| consumer | organisms that obtain food by eating other organisms |
| decomposer | organism that breaks down and obtains energy from dead organic matter |
| scavenger | a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms |
| food chain | a series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten |
| food web | a diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem |
| herbivore | organism that obtains energy by eating only plants |
| omnivore | an animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substances |
| carnivore | Meat eater |
| photosynthesis | process by which plants use the sun's energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into sugars |
| chlorophyll | green pigment in plants that absorbs light energy used to carry out photosynthesis |
| biology | the science that studies living organisms |
| ecosystem | living and nonliving things in an environment, together with their interactions |
| community | a group of organisms living in the same region and interacting with each other |
| population | a group of organisms of the same species populating a given area |
| niche | The role of an organism in an ecosystem |
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