1-25 animals Flashcards
Include all living things
Biotic factor
Is all the interacting organisms living in an area
Community
Species with the broadest niche;tolerate a range of conditions
Generalist
Organic material that has been produced in an ecosystem
Biomass
Eat producers
Herbivore
Water in soil or in underground formations of porous rock
Ground water
The process by which water evaporates from the leaves of plants in terrestrial ecosystems
Transpiration
The process of converting N2 has to nitrate
Nitrogen fixation
Is a single pathway of feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem that results in energy transfer
Food chain
Eats both consumers and producers
Omnivore
Non living factors that are physical and chemical characteristics of the environment
Abiotic factor
Includes all of the organisms and the non living environment found in a particular place
Ecosystem
The place where an organism lives
Habitat
The study of the interactions between organisms and the living and non living components of the environment
Ecology
The dependence of every organism on its connections with other living and non living parts of the environment
Interdependence
Is the specific role
Niche
Organisms that use energy to control some of their internal conditions
Regulators
Heterotrophs obtain energy from eating organic molecules made by other organisms
Consumer
Eat other consumers
Carnivore
Organism that does not regulate internal conditions
Conformer
Species with narrow niches
Specialist
Indicates the organisms position in a sequence of energy transfers
Trophic level
An organism that feeds by breaking down organic matter from dead organisms
Decomposer
Moving to a more favorable habitat
Migration