Chapter 5 Vocabulary Flashcards
Food Webs
Food chain interelationships
Food Chains
A diagram showing a series of organisms and what they eat
Biotic Structure
The way different categories of organisms fit together
Trophic Structure
The major feeding relationships between organisms
Trophic categories
Producers, Consumers Decomposers
Chlorophyll
Green pigment
Chemosynthesis
Uses the energy in inorganic chemicals to form organic matter
Autotrophs
Produce their own organic material from inorganic constituents through the use of an external energy source
Organic
Containing carbon
Inorganic
Containing no carbon
Heterotrophs
Must consume organic material to obtain energy
Herbivores
Eat plants
Carnivores
Eat meat
Omnivores
Eat plants and meat
Detrivore
Organisms that feed on dead or dying organisms