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Biology Vocabulary Words Weeks 1-4
1.
Germinate – when seeds sprout or grow
2.
Dormant – alive but not active
3. Biology – the study of life
4. Biosphere – any place on Earth where you can
find living organisms
5. Biome – large areas around the Earth that have
similar characteristics, like plants, temperature and
rainfall
6. Biotic – living
7. Abiotic – nonliving
8. Autotroph – makes its own food using sunlight
(self feeding)
9. Heterotroph – organisms that have to eat, ingest,
absorb their food – organisms that cannot make their
own food
10. Trophic Levels – feeding groups
11. Consumer – organisms that have to eat, ingest,
absorb their food – organisms that cannot make their
own food (notice this is synonymous with heterotroph)
12. Decomposer – organisms that eat dead organisms
causing them to break down and decay (recycles
matter)
13. Producer – organisms that make their own food
using sunlight (notice this is synonymous with
autotroph and photosynthetic)
14. Homeostasis – maintaining an internal balance
15. Respond to Stimuli – reacts to changing conditions
16. Scavenger – an organism that eats dead organisms
17. Herbivores – an organism that eats plants,
photosynthetic bacteria, or photosynthetic algae
18. Omnivores – an organism that eats plants, (or
photosynthetic bacteria, or photosynthetic algae) and
animals
19. Carnivores – an organism that eats
20. Habitat – where an organism lives
21. Niche – an organism’s job or role in an ecosystem
22. Competition – challenges among or between species
for limiting factors like food, water, and shelter
23. Species – organisms that are similar and can
successfully interbreed
24. Population – a group of the same species in an
area
25. Community – all the different populations in an
area (so all the biotic factors – living organisms) in an
area
26. Ecosystem – all the abiotic and biotic factors in
an area
27. Limiting Factors – any abiotic or biotic factor that
will affect species survival