Biom Vocab. Flashcards
Energy pyramids
Energy pyramids are a model that shows the available amount of energy in each trophic layer in an ecosystem.
Food web
A food web is a model that shows different feeding relationships among living things .
Decomposer
Decomposers are organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms.
Food chain
A food chain is a model that shows one set of Feeding relationships among living things.
Coniferous
Coniferous are plants that reproductive organs called cones.
Consumer
The organism that eats other living things to get energy:an organism that does not produce its own food.
Biome
A biome is a major ecological community such as the grasslands,tropical rain forest,deserts,tundras,or savanna
Deciduous forest
Deciduous forests are a forest containing trees that lose there leaves each year.
Ecology
Ecology is the branch of biology that deals with the relationship of organisms to one another and there physical surroundings.
Cycle
A cycle is a process that repeats.
Nitrogen cycle
A proses in which nitrogen in the atmosphere enters the soil and becomes part of a living organism then eventually returns to the atmosphere.
Biotic factors
Biotic factors are all of the living parts of an ecosystem.
Water cycle
The water cycle is the continuous movement of water between land,ocean,and the air.
Abiotic factors
Abiotic factors are all of the non living part of the ecosystem.
Producer
A producer is an organism how makes its own food.
An organism that does not consume other plants or animals.
