Ecosystem Flashcards
What is Environment?
Made up of biotic and abiotic compoments
What is Ecosystem?
Biotic and abiotic compoments of the environment interact and form a community
What is nutrient cycle?
Movement of nutrients through abiotic and biotic components of the ecosystem.
Describe the process of nutrient cycle
Nutirents of soil taken up by plants, some nutrients loss due to leaching. Biomass die, leaving vegetation on soil, nutrients released to the soil as plant rot.
What is food chain?
Direct link between producers and consumers in form of simple line.
What is food web?
Similar to food chain, but in more complex way.
What is consumers?
Animals, eat plants or food
What is producers?
plants, generate food by themselves.
What is decomposers?
Decompose dead things, such as bacterial/fungi
What is Herbivore?
Plant eaters
What’s omnivore?
Eat plants and meat
What is Carnivore
Meat eaters
Which word describes the following
Animals, eat plants or food
consumers
Which word describes the following
plants, generate food by themselves.
producers
Which word describes the following
Decompose dead things, such as bacterial/fungi
decomposers
