Ecosystems Vocabulary Question Preview (ID: 59286)


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Any single living thing, such as an animal, plant, fungus, or bacterium.
a) Cell
b) Species
c) Population
d) Organism

A group of individuals belonging to the same species that live in the same region at the same time.
a) Population
b) community
c) species
d) Organism

a group of different kinds of species, living in the same area, usually interacting with each other.
a) Population
b) species
c) Community
d) Organism

A system that includes all living organisms in an area, as well as their non-living environment, functioning together as a unit.
a) community
b) species
c) Ecosystem
d) Park

A wide variety (many different kinds) of plant and animal species in an environment. More biodiversity indicates an ecosystem is healthy
a) Biodiversity
b) community
c) ecosystem
d) species

Place where an organism or a population normally lives or can be found. Provides food, water, shelter, and space to live in.
a) biodiversity
b) community
c) Habitat
d) ecosystem

living things in an ecosystem: plants, animals, bacteria, fungi
a) biotic
b) abiotic
c) bacteria
d) decomposer

non-living things in an ecosystem: soil, water, sunlight, wind, precipitation (rain, snow, sleet), rocks, minerals
a) biotic
b) abiotic
c) bacteria
d) decomposer

Many connections between different species, and their environment. What happens to one species or the environment, will affect everything else.
a) interdependence
b) community
c) species
d) habitat

Any organism that can capture (not create) energy directly from the sun, make its own food (glucose), and support the food web.
a) decomposer
b) bacteria
c) producer
d) consumer

Any organism that must eat other organisms for energy. It cannot make its own food or gain energy directly from the sun.
a) consumer
b) decomposer
c) bacteria
d) producer

Shows the flow of energy between one set of organisms - what is eaten by what in an ecosystem.
a) food web
b) inderdependence
c) biodiversity
d) Food Chain

Multiple connected food chains in an ecosystem that show the flow of energy in an ecosystem
a) food web
b) biodiversity
c) interdependence
d) food chain

an organism that hunts, kills, and consumes (eats) another organism
a) decomposer
b) Producer
c) consumer
d) bacteria

an organism that is hunted, killed, and consumed (eaten) by a predator
a) Predator
b) decomposer
c) bacteria
d) Prey

An animal that only eats meat
a) Herbivore
b) Carnivore
c) Omnivore
d) bacteria

An animal that eats both plants AND meat
a) omnivore
b) herbivore
c) carnivore
d) bacteria

An animal that only eats plants or products of plants (like seeds or fruit)
a) omnivore
b) herbivore
c) carnivore
d) bacteria

any organism that decomposes (breaks down) dead matter. They recycle nutrients back into the ecosystem.
a) carnivores
b) omnivore
c) Decomposers
d) bacteria

an animal that feeds on dead animals, often the remains of a carnivore's meal.
a) Scavenger
b) decomposer
c) bacteria
d) omnivore

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