STANDARD 2 Flashcards
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food web
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food chain
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Photosynthesis
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Respiration
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Predator
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prey
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trophic/energy flow
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mechanical energy
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solar energy
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Producer
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chemical
potential/food
energy
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consumer
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mutualism
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commensalism
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parasitism
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competition
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environment
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carrying capacity
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symbiosis
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10% rule
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competition
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limiting factors
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heterotroph
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autotroph
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population
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chlorophyll
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chloroplast
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mitochondria
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heat energy
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Decomposer
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Controlled variable
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Independent
variable
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Dependent Variable
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Control Group
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Experimental Group
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A model that shows A model that shows
all possible trophic
a single trophic
pathways in a
pathway in a
community
community
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A process done by
autotrophs and
heterotrophs to get
energy out of food
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An organism that
lives by preying on
other organisms
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host
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Autotrophs using
solar energy to
create glucose,
cellulose or other
sugar
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An animal hunted
and killed by
another animal for
food
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Chemical potential
energy in the form
of food that gets
passed from one
trophic level to the
next.
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Energy stored in the
Radiant energy
tissues of plants and
emitted by the sun.
animals that can be
used for energy
when consumed
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Energy of motion.
Examples include
swimming, running,
escaping
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Any organism that
produces its on
food. Synonym is
autotroph
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A symbiotic
relationship
between two
organisms where
both organisms
benefit
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A symbiotic
relationship
between two
organisms where on
organism benefits
and the other is
unaffected
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Any organism that
must eat or
consume another
organism for energy.
Synonym is
heterotroph
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A symbiotic
relationship
between two
organisms where
one organism
benefits and the
other slowly dies
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The simultaneous
demand by two or
more organisms for
limited
environmental
resources
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The external
conditions or
surroundings in
which a plant or
animal lives
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The maximum
population of a
particular organism
that a habitat or
environment can
sustain
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A close, prolonged
A principle that
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association between states only 10% of
The simultaneous
two or more
the energy passed
demand by two or
different organisms
from one trophic
more organisms for
of different species level to another will
limited
that may, but does
be converted into
environmental
not necessarily,
plant or animal
resources
benefit each
tissue and provide a
member.
food source
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Anything that can
An organism that
An organism that
impact an individual must eat in order to
can synthesis sugar
or population of
get energy. A
using solar energy. A
individuals. Include
synonym for
synonym for
water, habitat, and
consumer
producer
food
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Any of a group of
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green pigments that
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A measurement for
are found in the
A chlorophyllthe number of
chloroplasts of
containing organelle
individuals in an
plants and in other
found in algal and
environment or
photosynthetic
green plant cells
habitat
organisms such as
cyanobacteria and
algae
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A spherical or
elongated organelle
in the cytoplasm of
plant and animal
cells that converts
food to usable
energy
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The energy type
The animal or plant
that is lost at each
on which or in which
trophic level. Body
another organism
temperature and
lives, or steals
staying warm are
resources from.
examples
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Any micro organism
that breaks down
dead plant or animal
tissue to obtain
energy.
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Any variable that
needs to be the
same during an
experiment for all
groups or setups.
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The thing that you
change on purpose
during an
experiment. The
thing being tested.
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The thing you
measure and record
to see if there is a
difference or effect
in an experiment.
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The group in an
experiment that
that does not get
anything extra or
strange.
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The group in an
experiment that
that does get
something extra or
strange.