ch 5 ecosystems Flashcards
The process by which plants use water, carbon dioxide, sunlight to make its own food is
photosynthesis
Any plant that does photosynthesis to make its own food
producer
Any animal that must eat some kind of food to get energy
consumer
An organism that consumer wastes or dead organisms to get energy
decomposer
an animal that eats only plants
herbivore
An animal that eats only meat
carnivore
An animal that eats both meat and plants
omnivore
A group of organisms of ONE SPECIES that live in an area at one time
population
All the populations in an area make up a
community
All the living and nonliving things in an area
ecosystem
The place in an ecosystem in which an organism ives and has all of its needs met is a
habitat
The place or job that an organism has in an ecosystem
niche
An animal that is eaten by another animal is a
prey
A carnivore that hunts, captures and kills his prey is a
predator
A relationship between living organisms
symbiosis
The passing of ENERGY throught the environment. It starts with the sun and goes to the producers first nd then to the consumers
food chain
A group of many food chains joined together
food web
The amount of food, water, space, or shelter available in an ecosystem
limiting factors
The number of organisms that can live in one place
carrying capacity
A diagram that shows the amounts of energy that flows through eMac level of a food chain
energy pyramid
A VERY LARGE ECOSYSTEM that has its own climate and its own plants and animals
biome
The biome that has hot daytime temperatures and cold nighttime and very little rain
desert
The coldest biome. It has no trees and the ground is frozen
tundra
The biome that contains mostly evergreen and conifer trees
taiga