Ecology Vocab Week 2

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Rabbit in food web:

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Primary Consumer

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Energy transfer between trophic levels is typically...

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10%

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Relationship where one species is harmed:

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parasitism

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Term for each step in energy/matter transfer in a biological community (food chain, web, pyramid):

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trophic level

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Close relationship between two species

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symbiosis

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Decomposer example

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fungi

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Animal that gets energy from both plants and animals:

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omnivore

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A consumer that cannot make its own food is a

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heterotroph

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Commensalism: Symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits while the other is neither helped nor harmed.

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Symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits while the other is neither helped nor harmed.

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Mutualism:

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Both organisms benefit.