Ecology Flashcards
Energy pyramid
When energy is transferred from one organism and to another
Food web
Conceptualizes how organisms in an ecosystem receive their energy from one another and shows all feeding relationships
Decomposer
Decomposers eat dead plants and animals and return it back to the earth.
Food chain
A food chain shows how food and energy passes from one organism to another in an ecosystem
Coniferous
Plants that produce reproductive organs called cones
Consumer
A organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that does not produce its own food
Biome
A major ecological community such as grassland
Deciduous
A deciduous forest contains trees that lose leaves every year
Ecology
The branch of biology that deals with the relationship of organisms
Cycle
Move through a series of events over and over again
Nitrogen cycle
Nitrogen moves continuously through the atmosphere
Biotic factors
The living thing in a ecosystem
Water cycle
The cycle of processes by which circulates between the earths oceans
Abiotic factor
Anon-living condition or thing
Producer
Producer is an organism either a green plant bacterium
