ecology Flashcards
biotic
living things
abiotic
nonliving
population
how many people live there
community
What lives there
Ecosystem
a community interacting with things
bioshere
the living things
herbivore
eat plants
carnivore
eats meat
omnivore
eats meat and plants
food chain
chain of food
food web
web of food
energy pyramid
pyramid of energy
carrying capacity
how much it can carry
prey
what gets eaten
predator
what eats the prey
mutalisim
the doctrine that mutual dependence is necessary
Commensalism
an assication between 2 organisms
Parasitism
has parasites in it
Producers
produce their own food
decomposers
break down food
desert
a warm dry sandy place
tundra
the ground
Temperate deciduous forest
lose sunlight to tall trees
tropical rain forest
get a lot of rain and sunlight
Coniferous forest
is a terrestrial biome
savanna
a place in africa
Temperate grassland
a type of grassland