Chapter 5 Vocabulary

Question 0

Food Webs

Answer 0

Food chain interelationships

Question 1

Food Chains

Answer 1

A diagram showing a series of organisms and what they eat

Question 2

Biotic Structure

Answer 2

The way different categories of organisms fit together

Question 3

Trophic Structure

Answer 3

The major feeding relationships between organisms

Question 4

Trophic categories

Answer 4

Producers, Consumers Decomposers

Question 5

Chlorophyll

Answer 5

Green pigment

Question 6

Chemosynthesis

Answer 6

Uses the energy in inorganic chemicals to form organic matter

Question 7

Autotrophs

Answer 7

Produce their own organic material from inorganic constituents through the use of an external energy source

Question 8

Organic

Answer 8

Containing carbon

Question 9

Inorganic

Answer 9

Containing no carbon

Question 10

Heterotrophs

Answer 10

Must consume organic material to obtain energy

Question 11

Herbivores

Answer 11

Eat plants

Question 12

Carnivores

Answer 12

Eat meat

Question 13

Omnivores

Answer 13

Eat plants and meat

Question 14

Detrivore

Answer 14

Organisms that feed on dead or dying organisms

Question 15

Decomposers

Answer 15

A type of Detrivore that feeds on rotting leaves and would to return the nutrients back into the environment

Question 16

Parasites

Answer 16

Consumers feeding on their host

Question 17

Detritus

Answer 17

Dead plant material, such as fallen leaves, branches and tree trunks

Question 18

Primary Detritus Feeder

Answer 18

Organisms that feed directly on the dead material

Question 19

Secondary Detritus Feeders

Answer 19

Feed on the decomposers

Question 20

Biomass

Answer 20

Total combined weight of all Organisms at each trophic level

Question 21

Trophic Pyramid

Answer 21

Producers are on the bottom and tertiary consumers on the top

Question 22

Climate

Answer 22

Average temperature and percipitation

Question 23

Percipitation

Answer 23

Rainfall

Question 24

Permafrost

Answer 24

Permanently frozen subsoil which prevents the growth of trees

Question 25

Microclimate

Answer 25

The conditions found in a specific localized area

Question 26

Equilibrium Theory

Answer 26

Ecosystems that are stable because of healthy predator to prey relationships

Question 27

Ecological Sucession

Answer 27

The orderly and progressive replacement of one community to another until a climax is reached

Question 28

Pioneer Species

Answer 28

Start the process of ecological succession

Question 29

Facilitation

Answer 29

The process by which pioneer species beginning succession

Question 30

Climax Ecosystem

Answer 30

An ecosystem that has a dynamic balance between all of the species in the environment

Question 31

Primary Sucession

Answer 31

Occurs in areas with bare rock and there is no soil present

Question 32

Secondary Sucession

Answer 32

An ecosystem destroyed however soil remains

Question 33

Aquatic Sucession

Answer 33

When a small lake or pond transforms into a terrestrial ecosystem

Question 34

Fire Climax Ecosystems

Answer 34

Ecosystems that are dependent on fire for maintaing the ecosystem

Question 35

Chapparal

Answer 35

An ecosystem which has wet winters and dry summers with fires

Question 36

Resilience

Answer 36

Helps maintain the sustainability of the ecosystems