Unit 4 Energy in Ecosystems Vocab Review

What is the original source of energy of all living things?

• producers

• consumers

• the sun

• the moon

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They can make their own food through a process called photosynthesis.

• decomposers

• producers

• consumers

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A community of organisms and the environment in which they live is called

• population

• community

• habitat

• ecosystem

an animal that eats only plants

• omnivore

• carnivore

• herbivore

organism that is nonnative to an environment that disrupts the stable web of life

• intense species

• invested species

• invasive species

• incredible species

found at the top of the food pyramid, it has the smallest number

• first level consumer

• second level consumer

• third level consumer

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when a consumer eats another organism this is passed to it

• sunlight

• photosynthesis

• energy

• waste

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a group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area

• population

• community

• niche

• habitat

life in an ecosystem can be affected by the loss of food, water, space; this called

• factors

• limiting factors

• energy pryramid

• predator

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these need to eat other organisms to get energy

• producers

• consumers

• herbivores

• bacteria

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