Biomes Flashcards
Biome
A major ecological community such as tropical rain forest,grassland,or desert.
Energy pyramid
A model that shows the available amount of energy in each tropical layer in an ecosystem.
Food web.
A model that shows many different feeding relationships among two living things.
Decomposer
Organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms.
Food chain.
A model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things.
Coniferous
Plants that produce reproductive organs called cones.
Consumer
An organism that eats other living things to get energy,An orgasim that doesn’t produce its own food.
Biome
A major ecological community such as grassland,tropical rain forest,or desert.
Deciduous
A forest that contains trees trees that lose there leaves each year.
Ecology
A branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one and other and to there physical surroundings.
Cycle
A process that repeats.
Nitrogen cycles
A process in which liquid nitrogen in the atmosphere enters the soil and becomes a part of living organisms then eventually returns to the atmosphere.
Biotic
All parts of a living ecosystems.
Water cycle
The continual movement of water between the land,ocean,and the air.
Abiotic
All of the nonliving parts of an ecosystem
