1. Environmental Vocabulary
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2. An ecosystem is how biotic and abiotic in an area ____________________ .
interact with each other

3. Biome
Large land regions with given climates.

4. Biotic Factors
Any plant, animal or living thing that is part of a biome.

5. Abiotic Factors
Any nonliving part in an ecosystem, such as water, minerals , sunlight, air and soil.

6. Biodiversity
wide variety of life on earth.

7. Climate
The pattern of precipitation and temperature throughout the year.

8. Food Chains What is a food chain?
A model of how the energy in the food is passed from organism to organism in an ecosystem.

9. Food Chain Members What is a population?
All the organisms of the same kind living in the same place.

10. Food Chain Members
All the populations living together in the same place.
What is a community?

11. Food Chain Members An animal that gets its energy from eating plants.
(NO MEAT)
What is an herbivore?
I do not eat meat!

12. Food Chain Members What is a carnivore?
A animal that gets its energy from eating meat.

13. Food Chain Members
Animals that get energy by eating from eating both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?

14. Food Chain Members Any plant that can make their own food (PLANTS)
What are producers?

15. Food Chain Members
Any animal that eats plants or eats other plant-eating animals.
What are consumers?

16. Food Chain Members What are scavengers?
an animal or other organism that feeds on the soft parts of dead animals.
Ex. Vultures, Ravens and Hyenas

17. Food Chain Members
Any fungi or bacteria that breaks down dead plants and animals into useful material that enrich the soil.
ex: fungus, bacteria
What are decomposers?

18. Food Web
A model of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem

19. A _____ is the role the animal or species plays in a food web
A _____ is the role the animal or species plays in a food web. (think job)
NICHE

20. moved from one level to another
Energy Pyramid - a model that shows the amount of energy in each level of ecosystem _____________________.
What are
the lowest
trophic level
of the Energy
Pyramid?
The Producers

21. A step in the movement of energy in an Energy Pyramid is called a ___________ .
Trophic Level

22. Energy Pyramids
The farther up you travel on the food chain, the more energy that is _____to heat and activity.
lost

23. Carbon dioxide, water and light energy
In Photosynthesis the ingredients are ______, ______ and ________ .
Carbon dioxide, water and light energy
The end products of Photosynthesis are _______ and _______ .
Glucose and Oxygen

24. Photosynthesis is a ______ ______ ________ .
Food making process that takes place in the leaf (the chloroplast)

25. All food chains end with ___________ .
decomposers

26. Each step in the Energy Pyramid is called a ___________ .
1 %
Trophic Level
What percentage are
Secondary consumers?
10 %
What percentage are
Primary consumers?
100 %
What percentage
Are producers?

27. Good Luck