Echo Systems Flashcards
🔲Savanna! 🔲
a grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions, with few trees.
a large cat of a breed that is a cross between a domestic cat and an African serval.
“the Savannah is noted for its outgoing personality”
Predator
an animal that hunts and eats another animal
Energy pyramid
a model that shows the available amount of energy in each trophic layer in an ecosystem
Prey
an animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal
Decomposer
organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms
Food chain
a model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things
Coniferous
plants that produce reproductive organs called cones
Consumer
an organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that does not produce its own food
Deciduous
a forest containing trees that lose their leaves each year
Ecology
the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
Cycle
a process that repeats
Biotic
all of the living parts of an ecosystem
Nitrogen
a process in which nitrogen in the atmosphere enters the soil and becomes part of living organisms then eventually returns to the atmosphere
Factors
Factors are whole numbers that are multiplied together to produce another number. The original numbers are factors of the product number.
Water cycle
the continual movement of water between the land, ocean, and the air
