Chapter 1- Vocab Flashcards
A model that shows the available amount of energy in each trophic layer in an ecosystem
Energy Pyramid
A model that shows many feeding different relationships among living things
Food Web
Organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms
Decomposer
A model that shows one set of feeding relationships Ming living things
Food Chain
A type of plant with a needle like leaves hat uses cones to reproduce
Coniferous
A organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that doesn’t produce its own food
Consumer
A major ecological community such as grassland, tropical rain forest, or desert
Biome
A forest containing trees that lose its leaves every year
Deciduous
A branch if biology that deals with the relations of organisms to each one another and to their physical surroundings
Ecology
A process that repeats
Cycle
A process in which nitrogen the atmosphere enters the soil and becomes a part of a living organism then eventually returns to the atmosphere
Nitrogen Cycle
All of the living parts in an ecosystem
Biotic Factor
The continual movement of water between the land, ocean and air
Water cycle
All of the non living things of an ecosystem
Abiotic Factor
An organism that makes its own food; doesn’t eat organisms
Producer
