10/7/17 Vocab.

Question 1

Energy pyramid

Answer 1

a model that shows the available amount of energy in each trophic layer in an ecosystem

Question 2

Food web

Answer 2

a model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things

Question 3

Decomposer

Answer 3

organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms

Question 4

Food Chain

Answer 4

a model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things

Question 5

Coniferous

Answer 5

a type of plant with needle-like leaves that uses cones to reproduce

Question 6

Consumer

Answer 6

an organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that does not produce its own food (related word: consume)

Question 7

Biome

Answer 7

a major ecological community such as grassland, tropical rain forest, or desert

Question 8

Deciduous

Answer 8

a forest containing trees that lose their leaves each year

Question 9

Ecology

Answer 9

the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings

Question 10

Cycle

Answer 10

A process that repeats