Biomes Flashcards
Food web
A model that shows many different feeding relationship among living thing
Energy pyramid
The available amount of energy
Food chain
One set of feeding relationships among living thangs
Decomposer
decaying organisms
Consumer
Living thang that get energy
Biome
A major ecological community such as grassland,tropical rainforest,desert
Deciduous
a forest containing trees that lose their leaves each year
Ecology
the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
Cycle
a process that repeats (related word: cyclic)
Nitrogen cycle
a process in which nitrogen in the atmosphere enters the soil and becomes part of living organisms then eventually returns to the atmosphere
Biotic factors
all of the living parts of an ecosystem
Water cycle
the continual movement of water between the land, ocean, and the air
Abiotic Factor
all of the nonliving parts of an ecosystem
Producer
an organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants or animals
Carbon Cycle
a natural cycle in which carbon compounds, mainly carbon dioxide, are incorporated into living tissue through photosynthesis and returned to the atmosphere by respiration, decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels
