Ecology123 Word Scramble
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| Competition. | When organisms struggle against each other to survive. |
| Abiotic Factors. | Physical, non-living, or chemical factors which influence living things. |
| Biotic Factors. | Living factors which influence living things. |
| Carrying Capacity. | The number of organisms an environment can support. |
| Limiting Factors. | Factors which determine the types and numbers of organisms of a species in an ecosystem. |
| Autotrophs/producers. | Organisms which make their own food. |
| Herbivores. | Organisms which use autotrophs as a source of food. |
| Carnivores. | Organisms which use other organisms as a source of food. |
| Secondary consumers. | Organisms that consume primary consumers, but can also be consumed by trietary consumers. |
| Omnivores. | Organisms which can use both producers and other organisms for food. |
| Heterotrophs. | Organisms which do not produce their own food. |
| Food Chain. | A diagram which indicates the transfer of energy from producers through a series of organisms which feed upon each other. |
| Food Web. | A diagram which displays a series of interrelated food chains which provide a more accurate picture of the feeding relationships in an ecosystem. |
| Energy Pyramid. | A diagram which provides a means of describing the feeding and energy relationships within a food chain or web. |
| Biomass. | The total quantity or weight of organisms in a given area or volume. |
| Transpiration. | When water is lost to the atmosphere by the activities of plants. |
| Decomposers. | An organism that decomposes organic material. |
| The Carbon-Oxygen Cycle. | The movement of carbon and oxygen between the atmosphere, oceans,plants,animals and the ground. |
| Oxygen. | A colorless, odorless, gaseous element, that is required for the survival of many living things. |
| Ecology. | The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings. |
| Primary consumer. | A herbivore; an animal that has adapted to eat plants. |
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