coach hall big test Flashcards
non-living party of an ecosystem
abitic factor
living part of an ecosystem
boitic factor
part of earth that supports life on earth, the atmosphere, surface, and crust.
boisphere
how much enegry can pass throught one organism to another.
food chain
model that shows how much energy can pass through an enviroment.
food web
plants and many other producers use light energy to produce a simple sugar.
photosynthesis
in plant cells, food is made in green organisms in the cytplasm.
chloroplast
captures light energy that is used to make sugar
chloroplyll
h2o
water
co2
carbon dioxide
an element in all organic elements
carbon
makes up 78% of the atmosphere
nitrogen
organism such as a green plant or alge, that uses outside scource, like the sun, to create energy.
producer
makes up 20% of the atmosphere and is life supporting.
oxygen
the main sugar found in blood.
glucose
organism that cannot crete energy but obtains its food byh eating other orhganisms
consumer
only eats plants
herbivore
only eats meat
`carnivore
continuous cycle of water
water cycle
helps recycle
decomposer
eats both plants and meat
omnivore
change of matter from a gas to a liquid state from cooling.
condensation
process that takes up space when a liquid changes go a gas from heating
evaportaion
a solid changes to a gas
sublimation
water that falls as rain, snow, hail, or sleet.
precipitaion
water that evaporates off plants
transperation
carbon molecules move between the living and the non-living world.
carbon cycle
nitrogen from the atmosphere to the soil to the living organisms and back ti the soil.
nitrogen cycle