Chapter One: Ecology Vocabulary Flashcards
What is a energy pyramid?
A energy pyramid is a graphical model of energy flow in a community.
What is a food web?
A series of organisms related to a predator , prey and consumer resource interaction.
What is a decomposer?
A organism especially a soil bacterium,fungus,or invertebrate.
What is a food chain?
A hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next source of food.
What does coniferous mean?
Of any order,mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle shaped leaves/or scale like leaves.
What does consumer mean?
A person who purchases goods and services for personal use.
What does biome mean?
An area like a desert swamp wetland etc.
What does deciduous mean?
A tree or shrub that rapidly sheds its leaves.
What does ecology mean?
Ecology is the study of different ecosystems.
What does cycle mean?
Take the water cycle for an example
What does nitrogen-cycle mean?
The series of processes in which nitrogen and its components inter converted and in living organisms.
What does biotic mean?
Relating to or resulting from living things.
What does factor mean?
A circumstance,fact, or influence that contributes to a result or outcome.
What does water-cycle mean?
The cycle of processes by which circulates water between the earths oceans
What does abiotic factor mean?
A nonliving thing or condition.
What does producer mean?
A producer is an organism that can make its own food and energy through bio-chemical processes.
What does carbon-cycle mean?
The series of processes by which carbon compounds are interconverted in the environment.
What does predator mean?
A animal that naturally preys on others.
What does prey mean?
An animal that is hunted by a predator for food.
What does succession mean?
A person or animal that follows a certain characteristic.
