Biology Summative 🧪 Flashcards
What does ECOLOGY mean?
The study of how living
organisms interact with
each other and their
environment.
What does BIOME mean?
Large community of
plants and animals that
live in the same place.
What are BIOTIC FACTORS?
Alive things
What are ABIOTIC FACTORS?
Non Living things
In which group do animals, insects, and plants belong, ABIOTIC or BIOTIC?
Biotic
In which group do water, sunlight, and soil belong, ABIOTIC or BIOTIC?
Abiotic
What does ECOSYSTEM mean?
All the non living factors
and living organisms
interacting in the same
habitat.
What is a FOOD CHAIN?
Eating patterns in an ecosystem.
It keeps the energy flowing.
What is an ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION?
Constant replacement of
one community by
another.
What is PRIMARY SUCCESSION?
is the process by which organisms colonize a barren environment, leading to the formation of a new ecosystem over time.
What is SECONDARY SUCCESSION?
Areas where life has
already existed.
It happens after
destruction.
What is a BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE?
The ways in which an element—or compound such as water—moves between its various living and nonliving forms and locations in the biosphere.
What are some examples of BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE?
- Carbon
- Hydrogen
- Nitrogen
- Oxygen
- Phosphorus
- Sulfur
What are some examples of BIOMES?
The Tundra, Meadow. Chaparral, Desert, Taiga.
Examples of PRODUCERS
Trees, grasses, other plants, algae, and some bacteria.
