Statistics for Ecological Vocabulary 1

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
A consumer that eats only plant material	herbivore	97%
When there are no more individuals of a species alive anywhere in the world, the species is _______	extinct	89%
An animal that feeds exclusively on animal matter	carnivore	84%
An organism that lives in or on a host, which benefits while the host is harmed	parasite	84%
An animal that hunts prey	predator	84%
The place where an organism lives	habitat	81%
An organism that feeds on both plant and animal matter	omnivore	81%
At risk of going extinct in the near future	endangered	73%
All the members of a particular species that live in a defined area	population	67%
All parts of the earth where living things exist	biosphere	63%
An organism that causes ecological harm in an environment where it is not native (2 words)	invasive species	61%
An organism that feeds on the flesh of animals it finds that are dead already	scavenger	61%
A community of organisms and their habitat	ecosystem	60%
A diagram that shows the flow of energy through a community (2 words)	food chain	56%
An organism that breaks down dead organic matter into simple molecules while it feeds	decomposer	53%
All the populations that live in a particular area	community	52%
An organism that can make its own food (is autotrophic)	producer	39%
An organism that has to feed on other organisms to obtain nutrition	consumer	33%