Economic Vocabulary Flashcards
Energy Pyramid
An energy pyramid is a graphical model of energy flow in a community. The different levels represent different groups of organisms that might compose a food chain. From the bottom-up, they are as follows Producers bring energy from nonliving sources into the community
Food Web
A System of enter locking and independent
Decomposer
a device or installation that is used to break down a chemical substance
Food chain
the series of processes by which food is grown or produced, sold, and eventually consumed.
“they have taken all reasonable steps to ensure that no contaminated products enter the food chain
Coniferous
The Pinophyta, also known as Coniferophyta or Coniferae, or commonly as conifers, are a division of vascular land plants containing a single class, Pinopsida. They are gymnosperms, cone-bearing seed plants
Consumer
a person or thing that eats or uses something