Ecology Unite review
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doughboyy5 on September 29, 2007
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24 terms
Latin | English |
|---|---|
| Homeostasis |  keeping a constant environment. |
| Chemosynthesis | plants produce cabohydrates. |
| photosynthesis | plants that make their own food. |
| producer | plants, some bacteria, algae |
| consumer | organisms that relie on other organisms for energy. |
| autotroph | plants photosynthesis |
| heterotroph | animals obtains energy from the food it comsumes |
| herbivore | an animal that only eats plants |
| scavenger | feeds on dead |
| carnivore | an animal that only eats meat |
| omnivore | an animal that eats both plants and meat |
| decomposer | dead organisms |
| food chain | series of organisms eating others and being eatin in a chain |
| food web | relationships among various organisms in an ecosystem |
| biotic | living organisms |
| abiotic | nonliving organisms |
| trophic levels | step in a food chain or food web |
| energy pyramid | a pryamid animals are placed depending on what they eat. |
| Symbiotic | the relationship between two species |
| mutualsim | one org benefits and 2nd org benefits |
| commensalism | one org benefit other is not effected |
| parasitism | one org benefits and other is hurt |
| predation | one organism capture and feeds on another organism |
| predator-prey | population regulated by predation |
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