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Matter and Energy: Ecosystem
Chapter 4 Vocab/Concepts
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Environmental Studies
11th Grade
11/12/2007

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consumers
Definition

organisms that cannot make their own food

 

 examples: animals, humans

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decomposers
Definition

bacterium or fungus that consumes the bodies of dead organisms and other organic waste

 

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bacteria

 

 

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producers
Definition

organisms that make their own food from inorganic molecules and energy

 

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examples:  plants, flowers, grass, some specific kinds of bacteria and fungi

  

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herbivore
Definition

plant-eater

 

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examples: rabbits

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carnivore
Definition

meat-eater

 

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omnivore
Definition

both plan and meat-eater

 

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Term
trophic level
Definition

layer in the structure of feeding relationships in an ecosystem

 

 

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biological magnification
Definition
an increasing concentration of a pollutant in organisms at higher trophic levels in a food web
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food web
Definition

net work of food chains representing the feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem

 

 

Term
food chain
Definition
series of organisms that transfer food between trophic levels in an ecosystem
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biomass
Definition
total amount of organic matter present in a trophic level
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ecological pyramid
Definition

diagram that shows the relative amounts of energy in different trophic levels in an ecosystem

 

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evaporation
Definition

movement of water into the atmosphere as it changes from a liquid to a gas

 

 

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legumes
Definition

a plant that has colonies of nitrogen-fixing bacteria on its roots

 

 

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transpiration
Definition

evaporation of water from the leaves of plants

 

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